The Widow's Offering

Luke 21

1 y Jesus 1 looked up and saw the rich z putting their gifts into a the offering box, 2 and he saw a poor widow put in two b small copper coins. 2 3 And he said, "Truly, I tell you, c 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 d poverty put in all e she had to live on."

  1. Cross References
    Luke 21:1 - 4
    Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box.
    Mark 12:41 - 44
    And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums.
  2. Cross References
    2 Kings 12:9
    Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest and bored a hole in the lid of it and set it beside the altar on the right side as one entered the house of the Lord. And the priests who guarded the threshold put in it all the money that was brought into the house of the Lord.
  3. Cross References
    John 8:20
    These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
  4. Cross References
    Luke 21:1 - 4
    Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box.
    Mark 12:41 - 44
    And he sat down opposite the treasury and watched the people putting money into the offering box. Many rich people put in large sums.
  5. Cross References
    Luke 12:59
    I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the very last penny.
  6. Cross References
    2 Corinthians 8:2
    For in a severe test of affliction, their abundance of joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.
    2 Corinthians 8:12
    For if the readiness is there, it is acceptable according to what a person has, not according to what he does not have.
  7. Cross References
    Philippians 4:11
    Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.
  8. Cross References
    Luke 8:43
    And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone.
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