Mark 12:42

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

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

ASV

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

YLT

and having come, a poor widow did put in two mites, which are a farthing.

DBT

And a poor widow came and cast in two mites, which is a farthing.

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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.

Jerome· LETTER 54, TO FURIA 17, 420patristic

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But in a mystical sense, they are rich, who bring forth from the treasure of their heart things new and old, which are the obscure and hidden things of Divine wisdom in both testaments; but who is the poor woman, if it be not I and those like me, who cast in what I can, and have the will to explain to you, where I have not the power.

Pseudo-Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 9999patristic

And there came a certain poor widow,....

John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed

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.

Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical

Christ had formerly in parables showed how he designed to set up the gospel church; now he begins in parables to show how he would lay aside the Jewish church, which it might have been grafted into the stock of, but was built upon the ruins of.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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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.
Luke 21:2
and He saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.
Luke 12:59
I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the very last penny.”
2 Corinthians 8:2
In the terrible ordeal they suffered, their abundant joy and deep poverty overflowed into rich generosity.
Matthew 10:42
And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”
Song of Solomon 8:1
O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.

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