for they all put in out of their excess, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her entire livelihood.”
But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his tender affections from him, how does the love of Elohim stay in him?
“What she had, she used. She took it beforehand to anoint My body for the burial.
“No one takes in pledge the lower or the upper millstone, for he would be taking a life in pledge.
‘But when this son of yours came, who has devoured your livelihood with whores, you slaughtered the fattened calf for him.’
and the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the portion of goods falling to me.’ And he divided his livelihood between them.
And a woman, having a flow of blood for twelve years, who, having spent all her livelihood on physicians, was unable to be healed by any,
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,