Mark 12:44

42 And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.

43 And he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury:

For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB
For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”
KJV
For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
WEB
for they all gave out of their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, gave all that she had to live on.”
ASV
for they all did cast in of their superfluity; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, [even] all her living.
DARBY
for all have cast in of that which they had in abundance, but she of her destitution has cast in all that she had, the whole of her living.
BLB
For all cast [in] out of that which is abounding to them, but she out of her poverty cast [in] all, as much as she had—her whole livelihood.”
ÅB
For de la alle av sin overflod, men hun la av sin fattigdom alt det hun eide, hele sitt livsopphold.
OTB
De ga alle av sin overflod; men hun, av sin fattigdom, ga alt hun hadde å leve på."
B1930
For de la alle av sin overflod, men hun la av sin fattigdom alt det hun eide, hele sitt livsophold.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 2 Corinthians 8:2–3

    How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.

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  • 1 John 3:17

    But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

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  • Luke 21:2–4

    And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.

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  • Ezra 2:68–69

    And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:

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  • Mark 14:8

    She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.

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  • Luke 15:30

    But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

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  • Luke 8:43

    And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,

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  • Deuteronomy 24:6

    No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.

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