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I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body but after that can do no more. I shall show you whom to fear. Be afraid of the one who after killing has the power to cast into Gehenna;[a] yes, I tell you, be afraid of that one. Are not five sparrows sold for two small coins?[b] Yet not one of them has escaped the notice of God.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:5 Gehenna: see note on Mt 5:22.
  2. 12:6 Two small coins: the Roman copper coin, the assarion (Latin as), was worth about one-sixteenth of a denarius (see note on Lk 7:41).