1 He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.
2 He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins.{literally, 'two lepta.' 2 lepta was about 1% of a day's wages for an agricultural laborer.}
3 He said, 'Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them,
4 for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.'
5 As some were talking about the temple and how it was decorated with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,
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