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

⁴¹ Then Jesus took his seat opposite the treasury and watched the people putting their offerings into the chest. Many rich people were putting in large sums. ⁴² There came also a poor widow who dropped in two little coins, worth a cent. ⁴³ On this he called his disciples to him, and said: "I tell you solemnly that this poor widow has put in more than all who have put their offerings into the treasury; ⁴⁴ for they have all put in what they could spare out of their surplus, but she, out of her penury, has put in all that she possessed, her whole living."

¹ And he looked up and saw people casting their offerings into the treasury, and they were rich. ² And he saw a certain poor widow casting in two mites ³ And he said: "Of truth I tell you that this poor widow has put in more than they all; ⁴ "for these men have all contributed to the offering out of their surplus, but she, out of her want, contributed all she had to live on."