Mark 12:44
Because they all put in something out of what they had no need for; but she out of her need put in all she had, even all her living.
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Deuteronomy 24:6No one is to take, on account of a debt, the stones with which grain is crushed: for in doing so he takes a man's living.
2 Chronicles 24:10And all the chiefs and all the people came gladly and put their money into the chest, till they had all given.
2 Chronicles 35:7And Josiah gave lambs and goats from the flock as Passover offerings for all the people who were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand oxen: these were from the king's private property.
Nehemiah 7:70And some of the heads of families gave money for the work. The Tirshatha gave into the store a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' robes.
Luke 8:43And a woman, who had had a flow of blood for twelve years, and had given all her money to medical men, and not one of them was able to make her well,
Luke 15:30But when this your son came, who has been wasting your property with bad women, you put to death the fat young ox for him.
Matthew Henry on Mark 12:42-44
Christ Commendeth the Poor Widow. 41 And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. 42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. 43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: 44 For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in… Read the whole commentary →