The Widow’s Two Mites
41 aNow Jesus sat opposite the treasury and saw how the people put money binto the treasury. And many who were rich put in much.
42 Then one poor widow came and threw in two1 mites, which make a quadrans.
43 So He called His disciples to Himself and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you that athis poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury;
44 for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, aher whole livelihood.”
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Now these two examples are clearly different types of offerings, but I personally do not think that that matters as we think about what God is looking for in an offering. Jesus Himself is watching all of these physically rich people dropping money into the box, as it were. And then a poor widow, a woman who no longer had a husband to care for her, probably had a difficult time taking care of, you know, food and other staple items needed to sustain oneself, gave an offering that impressed Jesus: "out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood."
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