Luke 21:1-4·~1 min
The Poor Widow’s Offering
Jesus sees the rich placing gifts into the treasury and notices a poor widow add two small coins. He names her offering greater than the others because she gives from poverty all she has to live on.
T1hen Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, 2and He saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. 3“Truly I tell you,” He said, “this poor widow has put in more than all the others. 4For they all contributed out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.”
Section summaryJesus watches gifts placed into the treasury and gives the widow’s two coins greater weight than the rich offerings around her. Her poverty, not the amount, defines the gift she brings.
Role in the chapterThis brief scene establishes the chapter’s first contrast: outward appearance gives way to measured, costly offering.