Luke 21:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.

Luke 21:2 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Mark 12:42
And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

This short passage of story we had before in Mark. It is thus recorded twice, to teach us, 1. That charity to the poor is a main matter in religion. Our Lord Jesus took all occasions to commend it and recommend it. He had just mentioned the barbarity of the scribes, who devoured poor widows (Luke 20:1-47); and perhaps this is designed as an aggravation of it, that the poor widows were the best ben…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. two mites--“which make a farthing” (Mr 12:42), the smallest Jewish coin. “She might have kept one” [Bengel].