Giving To The Lord
Rev. William Moody
Relevant Scriptures
Luke 21:1–4
The Widow’s Offering
21:1 Jesus1 looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, 2 and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.2 3 And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. 4 For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”
Footnotes
[1] 21:1
Greek He
[2] 21:2Greek two lepta; a lepton was a Jewish bronze or copper coin worth about 1/128 of a denarius (which was a day’s wage for a laborer) (ESV)
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