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40 awho devour widows’ houses, and1 for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”  

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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Mark 12:42

Mark 12:42 There came a certain poor widow. Here, as in other places in the Bible, we must remember the exceedingly depressed and dependent condition of a poor man's widow in the countries where our Lord was. The expression is almost proverbial for one very badly off, and most unlikely to contribute anything to a charitable purpose. Two mites. The smallest of Jewish coins, about the value of one-fifth of a cent. It took its name from its extreme smallness, being derived from the adjective "lepton", signifying "thin". A farthing. Mark (not Luke) adds for his Roman readers an explanation, using a Greek word, "kodrantes", (taken from the Latin "quadrans"), meaning the fourth part, as our word "farthing" does. The value is only of importance as showing upon how minute a gift our Lord pronounced this splendid panegyric, which might be envied by a Croesus or a Rothschild.




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