For they all gave out of their wealth. But she, out of her poverty, put in what she had to live on, everything she had.”
He called his disciples and said to them, “I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the offering box than all the others.
She did what she could. She anointed my body beforehand for burial.
The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of the estate that will belong to me.’ So he divided his assets between them.
But when this son of yours came back, who has devoured your assets with prostitutes, you killed the fattened calf for him!’
Now a woman was there who had been suffering from a hemorrhage for twelve years but could not be healed by anyone.
One must not take either lower or upper millstones as security on a loan, for that is like taking a life itself as security.
But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person?