Mark 12
World English Bible Protestant Edition, 2020 stable text
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Jesus sat down opposite the treasury and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.
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He called his disciples to himself and said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,
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for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”
Source notes
Psalms 118:22-23
Exodus 3:6
Deuteronomy 6:4-5
Leviticus 19:18
Psalms 110:1
literally, lepta (or widow’s mites). Lepta are very small brass coins worth half a quadrans each, which is a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker’s daily wages.
A quadrans is a coin worth about 1/64 of a denarius. A denarius is about one day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.