And he called together his disciples, and said to them, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow cast more than all, that cast into the treasury.
And whoever giveth drink to one of these least, a cup of cold water only, in the name of a disciple, truly I say to you, he shall not lose his meed.
But when a poor widow was come, she cast two minutes, that is, a farthing.
For all they cast of that thing that they had plenty of; but this of her poverty cast all things that she had, all her livelode [or lifelode].
Jesus spake these words in the treasury, teaching in the temple; and no man took him, for his hour came not yet.
And all the disciples purposed, after that each had, for to send into ministry to brethren that dwelled in Judea.
For if the will be ready, it is accepted after that that it hath, not after that that it hath not.
that in much assaying of tribula-tion, the plenty [or the abundance] of the joy of them was, and the highest poverty of them was plenteous into the riches of the simpleness of them.