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21 He looked up and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.[a] He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them, for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”

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  1. 21:2 literally, “two lepta.” 2 lepta was about 1% of a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.

21 And he looked up, [a]and saw the rich men that were casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, This poor widow cast in more than they all: for all these did of their superfluity cast in unto the gifts; but she of her want did cast in all the living that she had.

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  1. Luke 21:1 Or, and saw them that . . . treasury, and they were rich.