THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Mark 12:42 in context
Mark 12:39–44
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and to get the best seats in the synagogues and the best places at feasts,
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those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”
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Jesus sat down opposite the treasury and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.
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He called his disciples to himself and said to them, “Most certainly I tell you, this poor widow gave more than all those who are giving into the treasury,
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for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”
Source notes
Notes from World English Bible Updated
- literally, lepta (or widow’s mites). Lepta are very small brass coins worth half a quadrans each, which is a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker’s daily wages.
- A quadrans is a coin worth about 1/64 of a denarius. A denarius is about one day’s wages for an agricultural laborer.
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