Luke 12:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God?

Luke 12:6 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Luke 12:24
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Psalms 147:9
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Psalms 145:15-16
The eyes of all wait upon thee; and thou givest them their meat in due season. …
Psalms 50:10-11
For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. …
Matthew 10:29
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-12)

We find here, I. A vast auditory that was got together to hear Christ preach. The scribes and Pharisees sought to accuse him, and do him mischief; but the people, who were not under the bias of their prejudices and jealousies, still admired him, attended on him, and did him honour. In the mean time (Luke 12:1), while he was in the Pharisee’s house, contending with them that sought to ensnare him,…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6-7. five ... for two farthings--In Mt 10:29 it is “two for one farthing”; so if one took two farthings’ worth, he got one in addition--of such small value were they. than many sparrows--not “than millions of sparrows”; the charm and power of our Lord’s teaching is very much in this simplicity.