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Luke 21:2–3

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21:2He also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.421:3He5 said, “I tell you the truth,6 this poor widow has put in more than all of them.7

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  1. 4 These two small copper coins were lepta (sing. “lepton”), the smallest and least valuable coins in circulation in Palestine, worth one-half of a quadrans or 1/128 of a denarius, or about six minutes of an average daily wage. This was next to nothing in value.
  2. 5 Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.
  3. 6 Grk “Truly, I say to you.”
  4. 7 Has put in more than all of them. With God, giving is weighed evaluatively, not counted. The widow was praised because she gave sincerely and at some considerable cost to herself.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

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)

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.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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.

NLTNew Living Translation

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 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 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: