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Matthew 10:29-31

World English Bible

“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will, but the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.

In the King James Version

Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.

What was happening around this

Jesus speaks to the Twelve, whom he has commissioned in Matthew 10:1–15, in instructions that anticipate opposition. Mark G. Vitalis Hoffman notes that “do not fear” in 10:24–31 sits amid explicit threats of violence and death, while vv. 32–39 turn to confessing or denying Jesus and conflict generated by the mission. The sparrow saying is therefore between v. 28’s warning about those who kill the body and vv. 32–34’s consequences and conflict.

Source: Hoffman, “Commentary on Matthew 10:24–39,” Working Preacher

The verses on either side

Matthew 10, verses either side, World English Bible

  1. Therefore don’t be afraid of them, for there is nothing covered that will not be revealed; and hidden that will not be known.
  2. What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
  3. Don’t be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul. Rather, fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in Gehenna.
  4. “Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father’s will,
  5. but the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
  6. Therefore don’t be afraid. You are of more value than many sparrows.
  7. Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven.
  8. But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven.
  9. “Don’t think that I came to send peace on the earth. I didn’t come to send peace, but a sword.

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