Mark 12:44 BSB — MannaFest

Mark 12:44

For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

for they all did cast in of their superfluity; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.

KJV

For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jerome

LETTER 53, TO PAULINUS 11 (420)

There is an old saying that a miser lacks as much what he has as what he has not. The believer has a whole world of wealth; the unbeliever has not a single farthing. Let us always live "as having nothing and yet possessing all things." [2 Cor. 6:10] Food and raiment, these are the Christian's wealth. [1 Tim. 6:8] If your property is in your own power, [Cf. Acts 5:4] sell it: if not, cast it from you.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

If Christ saith, Well-done, no matter who saith otherwise; and we must hence learn, 1. That giving alms, is an excellent good thing, and highly pleasing to the Lord Jesus; and if we be humble and sincere in it, he will graciously accept of it, though in some circumstances there may not be all the discretion in the world.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

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

Of their abundance - Of their superfluous store. They have given what they did not “need.” They could afford it as well as not, and in doing it they have shown no self-denial. She of her want - Of her poverty. All her living - All that she had to live on. She trusted in God to supply her wants, and devoted her little property entirely to him. From this passage we may learn: 1. That God is pleased with offerings made to him and his cause. 2. That it is our duty to devote our property to God.

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

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

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
πάντες	pantes	All	G3956 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
ἐκ	ek	out of	G1537 →
τοῦ	tou	that which	G3588 →
περισσεύοντος	perisseuontos	is abounding	G4052 →
αὐτοῖς	autois	to them	G846 →
ἔβαλον,	ebalon	cast [in],	G906 →
αὕτη	hautē	she	G3778 →
δὲ	de	however	G1161 →
ἐκ	ek	out of	G1537 →
τῆς	tēs	the	G3588 →
ὑστερήσεως	husterēseōs	poverty	G5304 →
αὐτῆς	autēs	of her	G846 →
πάντα	panta	all	G3956 →
ὅσα	hosa	as much as	G3745 →
εἶχεν	eichen	she had	G2192 →
ἔβαλεν,	ebalen	cast [in],	G906 →
ὅλον	holon	all	G3650 →
τὸν	ton	the	G3588 →
βίον	bion	livelihood	G979 →
αὐτῆς.¶	autēs	of her.	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 John 3:17
If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?
leads to
- Hebrews 13:16
  And do not neglect to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
- Isaiah 58:7–10
  Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own…
- Deuteronomy 15:7–11
  If there is a poor man among your brothers within any of the gates in the land that the LORD your God is giving you, then you are not to harden your heart or…
- 1 John 4:20
  If anyone says, “I love God,” but hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.
- Proverbs 19:17
  Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
Through
Mark 14:8
She has done what she could to anoint My body in advance of My burial.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 8:12
  For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what he does not have.
- John 12:7
  “Leave her alone,” Jesus replied. “She has kept this perfume in preparation for the day of My burial.
- Luke 23:53
  Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had yet been laid.