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Luke 21:2

Then he saw a poor widow put two small copper coins into the box.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Judgment;   Liberality;   Mite (a Lepta);   Responsibility;   Self-Denial;   Widow;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Generosity;   Liberality;   Liberality-Parsimony;   Mite;   Virtues;   Womanhood, Crowning Qualities of;   Women;   The Topic Concordance - Charity;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Money;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Mite;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Luke, gospel of;   Poor;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Priest, Christ as;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Mite;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Elijah;   Mite;   Money;   Widow;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Community of Goods;   Luke, Gospel of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Kingdom of God;   Money;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Appreciation (of Christ);   Claim;   Humility;   Money (2);   Property (2);   Wealth (2);   Widow ;   Winter ;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Mite;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Mite;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Mite,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Money;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Mite;   Poor;   Poverty;   Treasury (of Temple);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alms;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
He also saw a poor widow dropping in two tiny coins.
King James Version (1611)
And hee saw also a certaine poore widow, casting in thither two mites.
King James Version
And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
English Standard Version
and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.
New American Standard Bible
And He saw a poor widow putting in two lepta coins.
New Century Version
Then he saw a poor widow putting two small copper coins into the box.
Amplified Bible
And He saw a poor widow putting in two small copper coins.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
And He saw a poor widow putting in two small copper coins.
Legacy Standard Bible
And He saw a poor widow putting in two lepta.
Berean Standard Bible
and He saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.
Contemporary English Version
He also saw a poor widow putting in two pennies.
Complete Jewish Bible
he also saw a poor widow put in two small coins.
Darby Translation
but he saw also a certain poor widow casting therein two mites.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And he sawe also a certaine poore widowe which cast in thither two mites:
George Lamsa Translation
And he also saw a poor widow, who cast in two pennies.
Good News Translation
and he also saw a very poor widow dropping in two little copper coins.
Lexham English Bible
and he saw a certain poor widow putting in there two small copper coins.
Literal Translation
And He also saw a certain poor widow putting two lepta there.
American Standard Version
And he saw a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
Bible in Basic English
And he saw a certain poor widow putting in a farthing.
Hebrew Names Version
He saw a certain poor widow casting in two lepta.
International Standard Version
Then he saw a destitute widow drop in two small copper coins.
Etheridge Translation
And he saw also a certain poor widow who threw in two shomonee.
Murdock Translation
And he saw also a certain poor widow, who cast in two mites.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
He saw also a certaine poore wydowe, which caste in thyther two unites.
English Revised Version
And he saw a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.
World English Bible
He saw a certain poor widow casting in two lepta.
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither tuo mites.
Weymouth's New Testament
He also saw a poor widow dropping in two farthings,
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
but he saye also a litil pore widewe castynge twei ferthingis.
Update Bible Version
And he saw a certain poor widow casting in there two dollars.
Webster's Bible Translation
And he saw also a certain poor widow, casting in thither two mites.
New English Translation
He also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.
New King James Version
and He saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites.
New Living Translation
Then a poor widow came by and dropped in two small coins.
New Life Bible
He saw a poor woman whose husband had died. She put in two very small pieces of money.
New Revised Standard
he also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
and he saw a certain poor widow, casting in thither two mites;
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in two brass mites.
Revised Standard Version
and he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins.
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
And he sawe also a certayne povre widdowe which cast in thyther two mites.
Young's Literal Translation
and he saw also a certain poor widow casting there two mites,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He sawe also a poore wedowe, which put in two mytes,
Mace New Testament (1729)
he saw a poor widow throwing in the value of a farthing.
Simplified Cowboy Version
Then a little old lady came by and dropped in two small copper coins.

Contextual Overview

1 Jesus looked up and saw some rich people putting their gifts to God into the Temple collection box. 2 Then he saw a poor widow put two small copper coins into the box. 3 He said, "This poor widow gave only two small coins. But the truth is, she gave more than all those rich people. 4 They have plenty, and they gave only what they did not need. This woman is very poor, but she gave all she had to live on."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

mites: Mark 12:42, *marg.

Reciprocal: Leviticus 14:21 - poor Proverbs 11:16 - gracious Mark 12:41 - sat Mark 12:44 - all her

Cross-References

Genesis 17:19
God said, "No, I said that your wife Sarah will have a son. You will name him Isaac. I will make my agreement with him that will continue forever with all his descendants.
Genesis 17:21
But I will make my agreement with Isaac, the son who Sarah will have. He will be born at this same time next year."
Genesis 18:10
Then one of them said, "I will come again in the spring. At that time your wife Sarah will have a son." Sarah was listening in the tent and heard these things.
Genesis 18:14
But is anything too hard for the Lord ? I will come again in the spring, just as I said I would, and your wife Sarah will have a son."
Genesis 21:16
Then she walked a short distance away and sat down. She thought her son would die because there was no water. She did not want to watch him die. She sat there and began to cry.
Genesis 21:17
God heard the boy crying, and God's angel called to Hagar from heaven. He said, "What is wrong, Hagar? Don't be afraid! God has heard the boy crying there.
Genesis 21:24
And Abraham said, "I promise to treat you the same way you have treated me."
Genesis 21:25
Then Abraham complained to Abimelech because Abimelech's servants had captured a well of water.
Luke 1:36
And here's something else: Your relative Elizabeth is pregnant. She is very old, but she is going to have a son. Everyone thought she could not have a baby, but she has been pregnant now for six months.
Acts 7:8
"God made an agreement with Abraham; the sign for this agreement was circumcision. And so when Abraham had a son, he circumcised him when he was eight days old. His son's name was Isaac. Isaac also circumcised his son Jacob. And Jacob did the same for his sons, who became the twelve great ancestors of our people.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And he saw also a certain poor widow,.... Whom he took particular notice of above all the rest: the poor, and the widow, are regarded by him, and are his care; nor are their mean services, done in faith, and from a principle of love, despised by him, but preferred to the greater services of others, where faith and love are wanting:

casting in thither two mites; the value of a farthing. The Persic version renders it, "two bottoms of yarn";

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

See this explained in the notes at Mark 12:41-44.

Luke 21:4

Penury - Poverty. See this explained in the notes at Mark 12:41-44.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Luke 21:2. A certain poor widow — A widow miserably poor; this is the proper import of πενιχραν, and her being miserably poor heightened the merit of the action.

Two mites. — Which Mark says, Mark 12:42, make a farthing or quadrans, the fourth part of an AS, or penny, as we term it. In Plutarch's time we find the smallest piece of brass coin in use among the Romans was the quadrans, but it appears that a smaller piece of money was in circulation among the Jews in our Lord's time, called here, and in Mark, Mark 12:42, a lepton, i.e. small, diminished, from λειπο, I fail. In ancient times our penny used to be marked with a deep indented cross, dividing the piece into four equal parts, which, when broken in two, made the half-penny, and, when broken into four, made the fourthing, what we have corrupted into farthing. Probably the Roman quadrans was divided in this way for the convenience of the poor. Our term mite seems to have been taken from the animal called by that name; for as that appeared to our ancestors to be the smallest of all animals, so this being the smallest of all coins was called by its name. Junius says that mite was a small base coin among the Dutch. Our word mite seems to be a contraction of the Latin minutum, a small thing, whence the French miete, a crumb, a very small morsel. Mark 12:41; Mark 12:41.


 
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