Mark 12:44
For everyone threw in from their abundance, but this almanah from her need has put in everything she had, all her michyah (subsistence).
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Deuteronomy 24:6No ish shall take the lower or the upper millstone to pledge; for he taketh a manʼs nefesh in pledge.
2 Chronicles 24:10And all the sarim and kol HaAm rejoiced, and brought in, and dropped into the aron, until it was full.
2 Chronicles 35:7And Yoshiyahu gave to HaAm, of the tzon, kevasim and goats, all for the Pesachim, for all that were present, to the number of 30,000 plus 3,000 bakar; these were from the property of HaMelech.
Nehemiah 7:70And some of the chief of the avot gave unto the work. The Tirshata (governor) gave to the treasury a thousand drachmas of zahav, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty kasenos (garments) for the Kohanim.
Luke 8:43And an isha having a flow of dahm for twelve years, and who had spent all she had on rofim (physicians) but could not receive refuah from anyone, + 8:43 Lv 15:25-30
Luke 15:30But when shows up this ben of yours, the one having devoured your property with zonot (prostitutes), you sacrificed for him the fattened calf. + 15:30 Prov 29:3
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 →