Focused Passage
The Widow’s Gift, Jerusalem’s Fall, and Watchfulness before the Son of Man
Jesus contrasts the widow’s costly offering with outward religious abundance, foretells the temple’s destruction, prepares disciples for deception and persecution, announces Jerusalem’s siege and devastation, widens the horizon to the coming of the Son of Man, and commands watchful readiness.
Berean Standard Bible, Public Domain - Translation notes - Reference sources
1Then 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.”
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