Mark 12:42 - The Scriptures 2009

⁴² And a poor widow came and threw in two small copper coins, which amount to a cent.

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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.

Mark 12:42 Cross References

Song of Solomon 8:1

Who would make you a brother to me, Who nursed at my mother’s breasts! Should I find you outside, I would kiss you; I would not be despised.

Matthew 10:42

“And whoever gives one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a taught one, truly, I say to you, he shall by no means lose his reward.”

Matthew 5:26

“Truly, I say to you, you shall by no means get out of there till you have paid the last penny.

Mark 12:41

And sitting opposite the treasury He saw how the people put copper into the treasury. And many rich ones put in much.

Mark 12:43

And calling near His taught ones He said to them, “Truly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those putting into the treasury,

Luke 12:59

I say to you, you shall certainly not leave there until you have paid even the last mite.

Luke 21:2

and He saw a certain poor widow putting in two mites.

2 Corinthians 8:12

For if the readiness is present, it is well received according to what one has, not according to what he does not have –

2 Corinthians 8:2

that in much trial of pressure the overflowing of their joy and their deep poverty overflowed into the riches of their generosity.