This is part 37 in a year-long series on the Book of Mark. Today's teaching is by Jason English, Teaching and Vision Pastor at theHeart church in Boone, NC. 

Subtitle: The Widow's Offering

 

MARK 12.41-44

The Widow’s Offering

 

 

MARK 12.41

Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put

and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts.

 

 

MARK 12.42

 But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins,

worth only a few cents.

 

 

Cents

Mites

Farthings

Quadrans

Lepta

Denarius

1/64 day’s wage

$2.40

$1.28

 

 

2 Corinthians 9.6,7

Each of you should give

what you have decided in your heart to give,

not reluctantly or under compulsion,

for God loves a cheerful giver.

 

hilaros - cheerful, joyous

Root: hileos - merciful

Possibly from haireo - choose

 

 

MARK 12.43,44

 Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you,

this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth;

but she, out of her poverty,

put in everything—all she had to live on.”

 

 

Deuteronomy 14.28,29

At the end of every three years,

bring all the tithes of that year’s produce

and store it in your towns, so that the Levites

(who have no allotment or inheritance of their own)

and the foreigners, the fatherless and the widows

who live in your towns may come and eat and be satisfied, and so that the Lord your God may bless you

in all the work of your hands.

 

The Widow’s Offering