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Luke 21:1–4

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The Widow’s Offering

21yJesus1 looked up and saw the rich zputting their gifts into athe offering box, 2and he saw a poor widow put in two bsmall copper coins.2 3And he said, “Truly, I tell you, cthis poor widow has put in more than all of them. 4For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her dpoverty put in all eshe had to live on.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1Greek He
  2. 2Greek two lepta; a lepton was a Jewish bronze or copper coin worth about 1/128 of a denarius (which was a day’s wage for a laborer)

Cross references

  1. yFor ver. 1–4, see Mark 12:41–44
  2. z2 Kgs. 12:9
  3. aJohn 8:20 (Gk.)
  4. bch. 12:59
  5. c[2 Cor. 8:2, 12]
  6. d[Phil. 4:11]
  7. ech. 8:43

In other versions

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. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth; but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

He looked up and saw the rich dropping their offerings into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow dropping in two tiny coins. “Truly I tell you,” he said, “this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For all these people have put in gifts out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”

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. For they have given a tiny part of their surplus, but she, poor as she is, has given everything she has.”

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. For these all put gifts into the offering out of their abundance, but this woman out of her poverty put in all the means of subsistence that she had.”

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: For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.