Luke 21:1-4
Holman Christian Standard Bible
The Widow’s Gift
21 He(A) looked up and saw the rich dropping their offerings into the temple treasury.(B) 2 He also saw a poor widow dropping in two tiny coins.[a](C) 3 “I tell you the truth,” He said. “This poor widow has put in more than all of them.(D) 4 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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- Luke 21:2 Lit two lepta; the lepton was the smallest and least valuable Gk coin in use.
Luke 21:1-4
Lexham English Bible
A Poor Widow’s Offering
21 And he looked up and[a] saw the rich putting their gifts into the contribution box, 2 and he saw a certain poor widow putting in there two small copper coins.[b] 3 And he said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow put in more than all of them. 4 For these all put gifts[c] into the offering out of their abundance, but this woman out of her poverty put in all the means of subsistence that she had.”
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