Study it in the app“And summoning his disciples, he said to them, “Truly I tell you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who are putting into the treasury.”
Jesus sees a poor widow give everything she hadGenerosity and Money
Andκαὶsummoningπροσκαλεσάμενοςhis disciples,τοὺς μαθητὰς αὐτοῦhe saidεἶπενto them,αὐτοῖς“TrulyἈμὴνI tellλέγωyouὑμῖνthatὅτιthisαὕτηpoorἡ πτωχὴwidowἡ χήραhas put inἔβαλενmoreπλεῖονthan allπάντωνthose whoτῶνare puttingβαλλόντωνintoεἰςthe treasury.τὸ γαζοφυλάκιον
summon
Call to oneself, summon.
Where else “proskalesamenos” appearsdisciple
A follower of Jesus.
Where else “mathētas” appearssay
To express something in words to others.
Where else “eipen” appearstruly
"I assure you": Jesus says it to affirm something.
Where else “Amēn” appearspoor
Someone who has nothing to live on.
Where else “ptōchē” appearswidow
Widow.
Where else “chēra” appearsput
To place something somewhere.
Where else “ebalen” appearsmore
Abundantly, often, or to a still higher degree.
Where else “pleion” appearstreasury
The offering chest, the temple treasury.
Where else “gazophylakion” appearsOther books that tell the same thing or quote these words.
The widow's offering
Mark 12:41-44
41And sitting down opposite the treasury, he was watching how the crowd puts copper coins into the treasury. And many rich people were putting in much. 42And one poor widow came and put in two lepta, which is a quadrans. 43And summoning his disciples, he said to them, “Truly I tell you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who are putting into the treasury. 44For they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole living.”
1And looking up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury. 2And he saw a certain poor widow putting in there two lepta. 3And he said, “I tell you truly that this poor widow put in more than all of them; 4for all these put in as gifts out of what was left over to them, but she, out of her poverty, put in all the living that she had.”
42And one poor widow came and put in two lepta, which is a quadrans.
43 · This verse (above)
44For they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole living.”
1. What it says
What did Jesus answer about paying tribute to Caesar (vv. 15–17)?
2. What it means
Why did Jesus say the poor widow put in more than all the others (vv. 41–44)?
3. How I live it
Jesus said the first commandment is to love the Lord, and the second to love your neighbor (vv. 29–31). How will you make this concrete today?
