For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she, from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood.”
Calling his disciples to himself, he said to them, “Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the treasury.
She has done what she could. She has anticipated anointing my body for burial.
and the younger son said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of your estate that should come to me.’ So the father divided the property between them.
But when your son returns who swallowed up your property with prostitutes, for him you slaughter the fattened calf.’
And a woman afflicted with hemorrhages for twelve years, who [had spent her whole livelihood on doctors and] was unable to be cured by anyone,
No one shall take a hand mill or even its upper stone as a pledge for debt, for that would be taking as a pledge the debtor’s life.
If someone who has worldly means sees a brother in need and refuses him compassion, how can the love of God remain in him?