Are not two sparrows sold [in the market for food] for a small coin [Note: The coin mentioned here was worth about a half hour's worth of a farm laborer's pay, or about $3 in 1994]? And not a [single] one of them can fall to the ground without your Father [knowing about it].

'And to what shall I liken this generation? it is like little children in market-places, sitting and calling to their comrades,

And having gone out about the third hour, he saw others standing in the market-place idle;

and salutations in the market-places, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.