Mark 12:42
“And there came a certaine poore widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.”
1611 King James Version (KJV)
Viewing the original 1611 KJV with archaic English spelling.
Click to switch to the Standard KJV.
Mark 12:42 Context
40Which deuoure widowes houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: These shall receiue greater damnation. 41¶ And Iesus sate ouer against the treasurie, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasurie: and many that were rich, cast in much. 42And there came a certaine poore widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing. 43And he called vnto him his disciples, and saith vnto them, Uerily I say vnto you, that this poore widow hath cast more in, then all they which haue cast into the treasurie. 44For all they did cast in of their aboundance: but she of her want, did cast in all that she had, euen all her liuing.
Share This Verse:
Other Translations for Mark 12:42
And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
- King James Version
A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amount to a cent.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
And there came a poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing.
- American Standard Version (1901)
And there came a poor widow, and she put in two little bits of money, which make a farthing.
- Basic English Bible
And a poor widow came and cast in two mites, which is a farthing.
- Darby Bible
And there came a certain poor widow, and she threw in two mites, which make a farthing.
- Webster's Bible
But there came one poor widow and dropped in two farthings, equal in value to a halfpenny.
- Weymouth Bible
A poor widow came, and she cast in two small brass coins, which equal a quadrans coin.
- World English Bible
But whanne a pore widewe was comun, sche keste two mynutis, that is, a ferthing.
- Wycliffe Bible
and having come, a poor widow did put in two mites, which are a farthing.
- Youngs Literal Bible
People's Bible Notes for Mark 12:42
Mr 12:42 There came a certain poor widow. Here, as in other places in the Bible, we must remember the exceedingly depressed and dependent condition of a poor man's widow in the countries where our Lord was. The expression is almost proverbial for one very badly off, and most unlikely to contribute anything to a charitable purpose. Two mites. The smallest of Jewish coins, about the value of one-fifth of a cent. It took its name from its extreme smallness, being derived from the adjective "lepton", signifying "thin". A farthing. Mark (not Luke) adds for his Roman readers an explanation, using a Greek word, "kodrantes", (taken from the Latin "quadrans"), meaning the fourth part, as our word "farthing" does. The value is only of importance as showing upon how minute a gift our Lord pronounced this splendid panegyric, which might be envied by a Croesus or a Rothschild.