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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

21 Looking anablepō up , · de Jesus saw · ho rich people plousios putting ballō their autos gifts dōron into eis the ho offering gazophylakion box , · ho and de he saw a tis poor penichros widow chēra put ballō in ekei two dyo small coins. And kai he said legō, “ I tell legō you hymeis the truth alēthōs, that hoti · ho this houtos poor ptōchos widow chēra · ho has put ballō in more polys than all pas the rest. For gar they houtos all pas, out ek of ho their autos excess perisseuō, put ballō in eis their ho gifts dōron, but de she houtos, out ek of ho her autos need hysterēma, put in ballō everything pas that hos she had echō · ho to live bios on .”

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