Mark 12:41-44 - A Poor Widow's Offering

⁴¹ As Jesus sat facing the offering box, he watched how the crowd was dropping their money into it. Many rich people were dropping in large amounts. ⁴² Then a destitute widow came and dropped in two small copper coins, worth about a cent. ⁴³ He called his disciples and told them, "I tell all of you with certainty, this destitute widow has dropped in more than everyone who is contributing to the offering box, ⁴⁴ because all of them contributed out of their surplus, but out of her poverty she has given everything she had to live on."

¹ Now Jesus looked up and saw rich people dropping their gifts into the offering box. ² Then he saw a destitute widow drop in two small copper coins. ³ He said, "I tell you with certainty, this destitute widow has dropped in more than all of them, ⁴ because all the others contributed to the offering out of their surplus, but she, in her poverty, dropped in everything she had to live on."