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Luke 21:1–3

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THE WIDOW’S GIFT

21Heg looked up and saw the rich dropping their offerings into the temple treasury.h 2He also saw a poor widow dropping in two tiny coins.Bi 3“Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all of them.j

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Footnotes

  1. B two lepta; the lepton was the smallest and least valuable coin in use.

Cross references

  1. gMk 12:41–44
  2. h2Kg 12:9; Mt 27:6; Jn 8:20
  3. iLk 12:59
  4. j2Co 8:2,12

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others.

NLTNew Living Translation

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.

“I tell you the truth,” Jesus said, “this poor widow has given more than all the rest of them.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And he looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the contribution box, and he saw a certain poor widow putting in there two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly I say to you that this poor widow put in more than all of them.

KJV 1900King James Version

And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: