4For all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had.
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And all that believed were together, and had all things common; …
And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
Neither was there any among them that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,
And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
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…
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