Mark 12:42 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴² A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which are worth a penny.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴² And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴² And a widow who was poverty-stricken came and put in two copper mites [the smallest of coins], which together make half of a cent.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴² And there came a poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing.

Common English Bible

⁴² One poor widow came forward and put in two small copper coins worth a penny.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴² But when one poor widow had arrived, she put in two small coins, which is a quarter.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴² And there came a certain poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing.

Mark 12:42 Cross References

Song of Solomon 8:1

O that you were like a brother to me, who nursed at my mother’s breast! If I met you outside, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.

Matthew 10:42

and whoever gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones in the name of a disciple—truly I tell you, none of these will lose their reward.”

Matthew 5:26

Truly I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the last penny.

Mark 12:41

He sat down opposite the treasury and watched the crowd putting money into the treasury. Many rich people put in large sums.

Mark 12:43

Then he called his disciples and said to them, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the treasury.

Luke 12:59

I tell you, you will never get out until you have paid the very last penny.”

Luke 21:2

he also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if the eagerness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has, not according to what one does not have.

2 Corinthians 8:2

for during a severe ordeal of affliction their abundant joy and their extreme poverty have overflowed in a wealth of generosity on their part.