Mark 12:42 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 12:42

Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And there came a poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing.

KJV

And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jerome

LETTER 54, TO FURIA 17 (420)

I pass on to the widow in the gospel who, though she was but a poor widow was yet richer than all the people of Israel. [Mark 12:43] She had but a grain of mustard seed, but she put her leaven in three measures of flour; and, combining her confession of the Father and of the Son with the grace of the Holy Spirit, she cast her two mites into the treasury. All the substance that she had, her entire possessions, she offered in the two testaments of her faith.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Two mites - The word translated “mite” denotes a small coin made of brass - the smallest in use among the Jews. The precise value cannot now be easily estimated. It was much less than any coin we have, as the “farthing” was less than an English farthing. It was in value about three mills and a half, or one-third of a cent.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Mark (lightly modernized text, Grace Gems edition) (1857)

We have seen in the former part of this chapter, how the enemies of our Lord endeavored to "catch Him in His words." We have seen how the Pharisees, the Sadducees, and the Scribes successively propounded to Him hard questions — questions we can hardly fail to observe more likely to minister strife than edification. The passage before us begins with a question of a very different character. Our Lord Himself propounds it. He asks His enemies about Christ and the meaning of Holy Scripture. Such questions are always truly profitable.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
καὶ	kai	And	G2532 →
ἐλθοῦσα	elthousa	having come	G2064 →
μία	mia	one	G1520 →
χήρα	chēra	widow	G5503 →
πτωχὴ	ptōchē	poor	G4434 →
ἔβαλεν	ebalen	she cast [in]	G906 →
λεπτὰ	lepta	lepta	G3016 →
δύο	duo	two	G1417 →
ὅ	ho	which	G3739 →
ἐστιν	estin	is	G1510 →
κοδράντης.	kodrantēs	a kodrantes.	G2835 →