“for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.””
— WEB
Luke 21:4
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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“For 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.”
— KJV
“for all these did of their superfluity cast in unto the gifts; but she of her want did cast in all the living that she had.”
— ASV
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Commentary
of their abundance--their superfluity; what they had to spare," or beyond what they needed. of her penury--or "want" (Mar 12:44) --her deficiency, of what was less than her own wants required, "all the living she had." Mark (Mar 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 "looking down" now, as then "up," Me "sees" who "cast in," and how much. (2) Christ's standard of commendable offering is not our superfluity, but our deficiency--not what will never be missed, but what costs us some real sacrifice, and just in proportion to the relative amount of that sacrifice. (See Co2 8:1-3.)
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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