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?

9. When she has found it, she calls together her friends and neighbors, saying, 'Rejoice with me, for I have found the drachma which I had lost.'

3. He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, "Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

4. As he sowed, some seeds fell by the roadside, and the birds came and devoured them.

5. Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.

42. Watch therefore, for you don't know in what hour your Lord comes.

43. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch of the night the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.

44. Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.