The Widow’s Gift

21 He(A) looked up and saw the rich dropping their offerings into the temple treasury.(B) He also saw a poor widow dropping in two tiny coins.[a](C) “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all of them.(D) For all these people have put in gifts out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”

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Footnotes

  1. 21:2 Lit two lepta; the lepton was the smallest and least valuable Gk coin in use.

The Widow’s Offering(A)

21 Now Jesus[a] looked up and saw rich people dropping their gifts into the offering box.[b] Then he saw a destitute widow drop in two small copper coins.[c] He said, “I tell you with certainty, this destitute widow has dropped in more than all of them, because all the others contributed to the offering[d] out of their surplus, but she, in her poverty, dropped in everything she had to live on.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 21:1 Lit. he
  2. Luke 21:1 Or treasury
  3. Luke 21:2 Lit. lepta, the smallest coin denominated in the 1st century Jewish economy
  4. Luke 21:4 Other mss. read to the offering of God