He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.†
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Luke 21:2 in context
Luke 21:1–5
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He looked up and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.
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He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,
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for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”
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As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,
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- literally, “two lepta.” 2 lepta was about 1% of a day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
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