Mark 12:44
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.
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Deuteronomy 24:6No man shall take the mill or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
2 Chronicles 24:10And all the princes and all the people rejoiced, and brought in, and cast into the chest, until they had made an end.
2 Chronicles 35:7And Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all of them for the passover offerings, unto all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king’s substance.
Nehemiah 7:70And some from among the heads of fathers’ houses gave unto the work. The Tirshatha gave to the treasury a thousand darics of gold, fifty basons, five hundred and thirty priests’ garments.
Luke 8:43And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, and could not be healed of any,
Luke 15:30but when this thy son came, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou killedst for him the fatted calf.
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 →