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web@Matthew:10:29 @ "Aren't two sparrows sold for an assarion coin {An assarion is a small coin worth one tenth of a drachma or a sixteenth of a denarius. An assarion is approximately the wages of one half hour of agricultural labor.}? Not one of them falls on the ground apart from your Father's will,

web@Matthew:17:24 @ When they had come to Capernaum, those who collected the didrachma coins {A didrachma is a Greek silver coin worth 2 drachmas, about as much as 2 Roman denarii, or about 2 days' wages. It was commonly used to pay the half-shekel temple tax, because 2 drachmas were worth one half shekel of silver.} came to Peter, and said, "Doesn't your teacher pay the didrachma?"

web@Matthew:18:24 @ When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. {Ten thousand talents represents an extremely large sum of money, equivalent to about 60,000,000 denarii, where one denarius was typical of one day's wages for agricultural labor.}

web@Matthew:20:8 @ When evening had come, the lord of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning from the last to the first.'

web@Mark:6:37 @ But he answered them, "You give them something to eat." They asked him, "Shall we go and buy two hundred denarii {200 denarii was about 7 or 8 months wages for an agricultural laborer.} worth of bread, and give them something to eat?"

web@Mark:12:42 @ A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, {literally, lepta (or widow's mites). Lepta are very small brass coins worth half a quadrans each, which is a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker's daily wages.} which equal a quadrans coin. {A quadrans is a coin worth about 164 of a denarius. A denarius is about one day's wages for an agricultural laborer.}

web@Mark:14:5 @ For this might have been sold for more than three hundred denarii, {300 denarii was about a years wages for an agricultural laborer.} and given to the poor." They grumbled against her.

web@Luke:3:14 @ Soldiers also asked him, saying, "What about us? What must we do?" He said to them, "Extort from no one by violence, neither accuse anyone wrongfully. Be content with your wages."

web@Luke:10:7 @ Remain in that same house, eating and drinking the things they give, for the laborer is worthy of his wages. Don't go from house to house.

web@Luke:12:6 @ "Aren't five sparrows sold for two assaria coins {An assarion was a small copper coin worth about an hour's wages for an agricultural laborer.}? Not one of them is forgotten by God.

web@Luke:12:59 @ I tell you, you will by no means get out of there, until you have paid the very last penny. {literally, lepton. A lepton is a very small brass Jewish coin worth half a Roman quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker's daily wages.}"

web@Luke:15:8 @ Or what woman, if she had ten drachma {A drachma coin was worth about 2 days wages for an agricultural laborer.} coins, if she lost one drachma coin, wouldn't light a lamp, sweep the house, and seek diligently until she found it?

web@Luke:19:13 @ He called ten servants of his, and gave them ten mina coins, {10 minas was more than 3 years' wages for an agricultural laborer.} and told them, 'Conduct business until I come.'

web@Luke:21:2 @ He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins. {literally, "two lepta." 2 lepta was about 1% of a day's wages for an agricultural laborer.}

web@John:4:36 @ He who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

web@John:12:5 @ "Why wasn't this ointment sold for three hundred denarii, {300 denarii was about a year's wages for an agricultural laborer.} and given to the poor?"