Mark 12:43-44

New English Translation

Footnotes

1. Mark 12:43 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amēn), I say to you.”
2. Mark 12:43 tn See the note on the term “offering box” in v. 41.
3. Mark 12:43 sn Has put more into the offering box than all the others. With God, giving is weighed evaluatively, not counted. The widow was praised because she gave sincerely and at some considerable cost to herself.
4. Mark 12:44 tn Grk “out of what abounded to them.”
5. Mark 12:44 sn The contrast between this passage, 12:41-44, and what has come before in 11:27-12:40 is remarkable. The woman is set in stark contrast to the religious leaders. She was a poor widow, they were rich. She was uneducated in the law, they were well educated in the law. She was a woman, they were men. But whereas they evidenced no faith and actually stole money from God and men (cf. 11:17), she evidenced great faith and gave out of her extreme poverty everything she had.