Luke 21:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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.

Luke 21:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Acts 2:44-45
And all that believed were together, and had all things common; …
Luke 15:12
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.
Acts 4:34
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,
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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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. 4)

4. of their abundance--their superfluity; what they had to spare,” or beyond what they needed. of her penury--or “want” (Mr 12:44)--her deficiency, of what was less than her own wants required, “all the living she had.” Mark (Mr 12:44) still more emphatically, “all that she had--her whole subsistence.” Note: (1) As temple offerings are needed still for the service of Christ at home and abroad, so…