And a poor widow came and threw in two small copper coins, which amount to a cent.
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.
“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.”
“Truly, I say to you, you shall by no means get out of there till you have paid the last penny.
And sitting opposite the treasury He saw how the people put copper into the treasury. And many rich ones put in much.
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,
“I say to you, you shall certainly not leave there until you have paid even the last mite.”
and He saw a certain poor widow putting in two mites.
For if the readiness is present, it is well received according to what one has, not according to what he does not have –
that in much trial of pressure the overflowing of their joy and their deep poverty overflowed into the riches of their generosity.