Mark 12:44 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁴⁴ For all of them threw in from their abundance, but being very poor, she threw in everything she had, even all she had to live on.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁴ for all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁴ For they all threw in out of their abundance; but she, out of her deep poverty, has put in everything that she had–[even] all she had on which to live.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁴ for they all did cast in of their superfluity; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.

Common English Bible

⁴⁴ All of them are giving out of their spare change. But she from her hopeless poverty has given everything she had, even what she needed to live on.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁴ For they all gave from their abundance, yet truly, she gave from her scarcity, even all that she had, her entire living."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁴ For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want cast in all she had, even her whole living.

Mark 12:44 Cross References

Mark 12:43

Jesus called His disciples to Him and said to them, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has thrown in more than all the rest who are throwing [money] into the treasury.

Mark 14:8

She has done what she could. She has applied this aromatic oil to my body in anticipation of my burial.

Luke 15:12

The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, [please] give me my share of your property that I have coming.’ So, the father divided up what he had to live on [with his two sons].

Luke 15:30

But when this son of yours came [home], after having squandered all you gave him on prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him.’

Luke 8:43

Then a woman, who had been bleeding for twelve years, and who had spent all her income on doctors without being healed by any of them,

1 John 3:17

Now whoever has [a sufficient amount of] life’s possessions and [then] observes one of his [Christian] brothers who does not have enough to get by on, but does not feel sorry for him [i.e., enough to help him out], surely a love for God does not continue to live in that person’s heart.