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71 The other leaders gave to the treasury a total of 20,000 gold coins[a] and some 2,750 pounds[b] of silver for the work.

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  1. 7:71a Hebrew 20,000 darics of gold, about 375 pounds or 170 kilograms in weight; also in 7:72.
  2. 7:71b Hebrew 2,200 minas [1,300 kilograms].

12 Whatever you give is acceptable if you give it eagerly. And give according to what you have, not what you don’t have.

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The Widow’s Offering

21 While Jesus was in the Temple, he watched the rich people dropping their gifts in the collection box. Then a poor widow came by and dropped in two small coins.[a]

“I tell you the truth,” Jesus said, “this poor widow has given more than all the rest of them. For they have given a tiny part of their surplus, but she, poor as she is, has given everything she has.”

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  1. 21:2 Greek two lepta [the smallest of Jewish coins].

19 He doesn’t care how great a person may be,
    and he pays no more attention to the rich than to the poor.
    He made them all.

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