and I heard what seemed to be a voice from the midst of the four living creatures say: "Wheat, fifty cents a quart, barley, fifty cents for three quarts! But you must not injure the oil and wine."

and having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them the inheritance of the land about four hundred and fifty years.

And after that He gave them judges for about four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

He answered, 'Nine hundred gallons of oil.' Then he said to him, 'Take your bill and sit right down and write four hundred and fifty.'

And many of those practicing curious arts, having brought their books, burnt them before all: and they estimated the price of them, and found it to be fifty thousand pieces of silver.

Simon Peter went up and drew the net to land, full of big fish, a hundred and fifty-three. And though there were so many, the net was not torn.

A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed him five hundred denarii [$70], and the other fifty [$7].

for they were about five thousand men. And he said to his disciples, Make them recline in companies of fifty each;

Then the Jews said to him, You have not yet fifty years, and have you seen Abraham?

And thence, the brothers hearing of us came out to meet us even to the Forum of Appius, and the Three Taverns [fifty-one miles]; and when Paul saw them, thanking God he took courage.

And they sat down in ranks, about one hundred, and about fifty.

And giant hailstones, as heavy as a talent, fell from the sky on the people; and people reviled and spoke abusively of God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so very great.

I tell you, you will not be released from there until you have paid the last coin [Note: This coin amounted to about five minutes of a farm laborer's pay, or about fifty cents in 1994]."

And when the day of Pentecost came [Note: This was a Jewish festival held fifty days following the Passover Festival. Lev. 23:15-21], they [i.e., the twelve apostles] were all gathered together in one place [i.e., their second story living quarters, 1:13 ?].

"But on his way out, that slave met a fellow slave who owed him fifty dollars. Seizing him by the throat, and nearly choking him, he exclaimed, "'Pay me what you owe me!'

In answer he said to them, "You yourselves are to give them food." "Are we to go and buy fifty dollars worth of bread," they said, "and give them food?"

That perfume could have been sold for more than one hundred and fifty dollars, and given to the poor."

"Why was not this perfume sold for fifty dollars, and the proceeds given to the poor?"

to one he gave twelve hundred pounds, to another five hundred, and to another two hundred and fifty; each got according to his capacity. Then the man went abroad.

But the servant who had got the two hundred and fifty pounds went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.

Then the servant who had got the two hundred and fifty pounds came forward. He said, 'I knew you were a hard man, sir, reaping where you never sowed and gathering where you never winnowed.

So I was afraid; I went and hid your two hundred and fifty pounds in the earth. There's your money!'

Take therefore the two hundred and fifty pounds away from him, give it to the servant who had the twelve hundred.

And you, the steward said to the next, 'how much do you owe?' 'Seventy quarters of wheat,' he replied. 'Here is your agreement,' the steward said; 'make it fifty-six.'

When the second came, he said 'Your ten pounds, Sir, have produced fifty.'

The first came up saying, 'Your five pounds has made other fifty, sir.'

Then he said to the bystanders, 'Take the five pounds from him and give it to the man with fifty.'

'Sir,' they said, 'he has fifty already!'

Others fell upon good ground, and brought forth fruit, some a hundred, some fifty. some thirty.