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6. οὐχὶ πέντε στρουθία πωλοῦνται ἀσσαρίων δύο; St Matthew says ‘two sparrows for one farthing.’ The little birds were sold in the markets strung together, or on skewers. The varying expressions of St Matthew and St Luke lead us to the interesting fact that if five were bought one was thrown in, which still more forcibly proves how insignificant was the value of the sparrows; yet even that unvalued odd one was not “forgotten before God.” The word for “farthings” is ἀσσάρια (from as) as in Mat 10:29); St Mark writing for Romans more accurately uses κοδράντης (quadrans), Luk 12:42.
ἐνώπιον. ‘In the sight of.’ The word is not used in the other Synoptists, and only once in St John, but is common in St Luke and St Paul.