Matthew 10:29

10:29 Aren’t two sparrows sold for a penny? ¹  Yet not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. ² 

Matthew 13:5

13:5 Other ³  seeds fell on rocky ground ⁴  where they did not have much soil. They sprang up quickly because the soil was not deep. ⁵ 

Matthew 13:8

13:8 But other seeds fell on good soil and produced grain, some a hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.

¹ sn The penny refers to an assarion, a small Roman copper coin. One of them was worth one-sixteenth of a denarius or less than a half hour’s average wage. Sparrows were the cheapest items sold in the market. God knows about even the most financially insignificant things; see Isa 49:15.

² tn Or “to the ground without the knowledge and consent of your Father.”

³ tn Here and in vv. 7 and 8 δέ (de) has not been translated.

⁴ sn The rocky ground in Palestine would be a limestone base lying right under the soil.

⁵ tn Grk “it did not have enough depth of earth.”