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“Teacher,” they said, “Moses told us that if a man dies without having children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for him.
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“Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
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The second one married the widow, but he also died, leaving no child. It was the same with the third.
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They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.”
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The Widow’s Offering
Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts.
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But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.
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Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.
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and then was a widow until she was eighty-four. She never left the temple but worshiped night and day, fasting and praying.
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I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land.
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Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them, but to a widow in Zarephath in the region of Sidon.
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Jesus Raises a Widow’s Son
Soon afterward, Jesus went to a town called Nain, and his disciples and a large crowd went along with him.
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As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.
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The Parable of the Persistent Widow
Then Jesus told his disciples a parable to show them that they should always pray and not give up.
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And there was a widow in that town who kept coming to him with the plea, ‘Grant me justice against my adversary.’
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yet because this widow keeps bothering me, I will see that she gets justice, so that she won’t eventually come and attack me!’”
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“Teacher,” they said, “Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife but no children, the man must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
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They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.”
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The Widow’s Offering
As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury.
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He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins.
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“Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others.
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The Choosing of the Seven
In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Hellenistic Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.
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Peter went with them, and when he arrived he was taken upstairs to the room. All the widows stood around him, crying and showing him the robes and other clothing that Dorcas had made while she was still with them.
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He took her by the hand and helped her to her feet. Then he called for the believers, especially the widows, and presented her to them alive.
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Now to the unmarried and the widows I say: It is good for them to stay unmarried, as I do.
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Widows, Elders and Slaves
Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers,