44For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality. …
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?
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: …
She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.
And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 41-44)This passage of story was not in Matthew, but is here and in Luke; it is Christ’s commendation of the poor widow, that cast two mites into the treasury, which our Saviour, busy as he was in preaching, found leisure to take notice of. Observe, I. There was a public fund for charity, into which contributions were brought, and out of which distributions were made; a poor’s-box, and this in the temple…
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