The Poor Widow

In Mark’s Gospel

• Jesus sat opposite the treasury and watched the crowd putting money in; many rich people put in large sums

  Mark 12:41

• She came and put in two small copper coins — lepta, the smallest coins in circulation — "which make a penny"

  Mark 12:42

• Jesus called his disciples and said: "Truly, I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all those who are contributing to the offering box"

  Mark 12:43

• "For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had, all she had to live on"

  Mark 12:44

Who they were

• ✦Faithful — gave when she had every excuse not to (Mark 12:42)
• ✦Trusting — gave "all she had to live on," leaving her future entirely to God (Mark 12:44)
• ✦Unseen by all but Jesus — no one else noticed; heaven did (Mark 12:41-43)

Read about them

Faces of Faith

“Surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses” — Hebrews 12:1

A keepsake of The Poor Widow’s story — the portrait on the front, the key moments on the back.