for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”
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for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.”
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For they all have of their superfluyte added vnto the offerynge of God: but she of her penury hath cast in all the substaunce that she had.
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For they all haue of their superfluitie cast into the offerings of God: but she of her penurie hath cast in all the liuing that she had.
Cross-references (4)
Passages linked to Luke 21:4 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Acts 2:44-45 All who believed were together, and had all things in common. They sold their possessions and goods, and distributed them to all, according as anyone had need.
- Luke 15:12 The younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of your property.’ He divided his livelihood between them.
- Acts 4:34 For neither was there among them any who lacked, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them, and brought the proceeds of the things that were sold,
- Luke 8:43 A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians and could not be healed by any
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain For all these have of their abundance,.... Which they…
For all these have of their abundance,.... Which they had remaining; the same Hebrew word signifying to remain, and to abound: they had large possessions, and gave in much, and yet had a great deal left; out of which they
cast in unto the offerings of God; or "gifts of God": not as gifts unto him; or among the gifts of God; but into the treasury where the gifts, and freewill offerings were put; the same with the "Corban", in Mat 27:6 and so the Syriac version here renders it, "the house of the offering of God": and it is expressed in the plural; because there were several chests, in which these gifts were put, for various uses; See Gill on Mar 12:41.
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but she of her penury hath cast in all the living she had; See Gill on Mar 12:44.
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain of their abundance--their superfluity; what they had to spare,"…
of their abundance--their superfluity; what they had to spare," or beyond what they needed.
of her penury--or "want" (Mar 12:44) --her deficiency, of what was less than her own wants required, "all the living she had." Mark (Mar 12:44) still more emphatically, "all that she had--her whole subsistence." Note: (1) As temple offerings are needed still for the service of Christ at home and abroad, so "looking down" now, as then "up," Me "sees" who "cast in," and how much. (2) Christ's standard of commendable offering is not our superfluity, but our deficiency--not what will never be missed, but what costs us some real sacrifice, and just in proportion to the relative amount of that sacrifice. (See Co2 8:1-3.)
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 4. of their abundance] Rather, out of their overplus.…
4. of their abundance] Rather, out of their overplus. The essence of charity is self-denial. But in these days most people give ‘mites’ out of their vast superfluity,—which is no charity at all; and they talk of these offerings as ‘mites,’ as though that word excused and even consecrated an offering miserably inadequate.
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain (4) For all these have . . . cast.—Better,…
(4) For all these have . . . cast.—Better, all these cast . . ., and so in the next clause.
Unto the offerings of God.—The better MSS. omit the last two words. “Offerings,” literally, gifts.
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Tyndale Open Study Notes 2022 · CC BY-SA 4.0 21:4 The amount given counts for less than the…
21:4 The amount given counts for less than the heart attitude of the giver.
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