40 They devour(A) widows’(B) houses and say long prayers(C) just for show. These will receive harsher punishment.”

The Widow’s Gift

41 Sitting(D) across from the temple treasury,(E) He watched how the crowd dropped money into the treasury. Many rich(F) people were putting in large sums. 42 And a poor(G) widow came and dropped in two tiny coins worth very little.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 12:42 Lit dropped in two lepta, which is a quadrans; the lepton was the smallest and least valuable Gk coin in use. The quadrans, 1⁄64 of a daily wage, was the smallest Roman coin.

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