Comments on: How much was the widow’s mite? https://wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com/nlt/2010/04/19/how-much-was-the-widows-mite/ Just another STANDALONE WPMU2 Sites site Wed, 08 Dec 2021 09:22:49 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.1 By: Reed https://wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com/nlt/2010/04/19/how-much-was-the-widows-mite/#comment-55 Mon, 24 May 2021 18:00:44 +0000 https://www.nltblog.com/?p=345#comment-55 I was so glad to find this post. The translation “penny” left me very confused when I found out that a quadrans is 1/64 of a day’s wage. I think the translation “worth very little” conveys very much the same thing the phrase “which is a quadrans” did to the original audience.

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By: Charlene McKinney https://wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com/nlt/2010/04/19/how-much-was-the-widows-mite/#comment-54 Wed, 08 Apr 2020 02:06:35 +0000 https://www.nltblog.com/?p=345#comment-54 Romans 10:17 states-Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. It is not specified whether preached or taught. Revelation is in both. You study to show yourself approved unto God, as a workman that needed not be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth 2 Timothy 2:15. The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth that is accessible to all believers. As we ask for wisdom and revelation of God’s word and search a matter out we receive answers. The two more meant something for Jesus to point it out. All others gave from their abundance, the widow gave more because the sacrifice was great, having to wait (if she was a widow indeed with no family) on the next distribution. It matters today for the simple reason if I give my 10 dollars and willingly without hesitation, not despising my little and you give your thousand with a couple of checks to be cashed, all bills paid, needing nothing but ritualisticly, not asking the Holy Spirit to guide your giving, then how pleasing is fleshly giving verses Spirit led giving. Applicable for today. Thank you.

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By: Zealous For Fine Works https://wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com/nlt/2010/04/19/how-much-was-the-widows-mite/#comment-53 Mon, 27 May 2019 15:16:23 +0000 https://www.nltblog.com/?p=345#comment-53 In reply to Bernie.

Thank you Bernie, I appreciated your “two cents worth”! I don’t live in the United States where a day’s wage is $15. Where I live, the majority live on $2 a day or less. How can these poor people be expected to give $2 when they go to church? A person shouldn’t feel like they are not welcomed in GOD’s temple because they have no money. There is a coin used in the country where I reside of such little value it is thrown in the street. Its value is 1/30 of a USA penny. Merchants and taxi drivers will not accept it. Banks won’t exchange it unless you bring in 150 of this coin, the equivalent of 50 cents, USA.
Yet the merchants and the utility departments keep them on hand to give out when your total contains a portion of a cent. When I first came to this country, six years ago, I could pick up a dozen of these coins in a week from the street. Not even the beggars wanted it. Now that hard times have come, it’s much harder to find this coin on the street.
The point Jesus was making was if you have no money, but you have faith, faith that GOD requires nothing from his servants except for our obedience, our love, and the best worship we can give, then prove it. Pick up two small coins from the street, the coins of “very little value” and proudly present them as your offering. Don’t worry about what people will say. Have faith that GOD appreciates your effort. That is the definition of “poor”, as in the “poor” widow woman.
I’ve never been hungry a day in my life. I don’t know what poor is yet, but I expect that before this system ends, I will know what it feels like to give from my needs. I just hope I will still have the faith to do it when it happens. For practice, I sometimes drop in the coins from the street. I don’t know what they do with them maybe they throw them back in the street, maybe they keep them in a jar until they collect 150 so the bank will accept them. I don’t know, I don’t care. What I know for sure is that it feels great! What I know for sure is my contribution counts, no matter how small it is.
Her contribution was worth more than all the contributions that came from the change found in the purses and pockets of her fellow believers, who probably didn’t have much to give either. You cannot put a price on Jesus’s illustration. To say it’s worth $1.80 is an insult to my faith and to my intelligence and to my GOD. May your collection boxes be filled to the max with small coins of very little value!

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By: J.T.A https://wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com/nlt/2010/04/19/how-much-was-the-widows-mite/#comment-52 Fri, 25 May 2018 12:20:05 +0000 https://www.nltblog.com/?p=345#comment-52 There are many valuable lessons we can learn from this account. The most outstanding one, perhaps, is that while all of us have the privilege of lending support to true worship by means of our material possessions, what is truly precious in God’s sight is, not our giving what we can do without anyway, but our giving what is valuable to us. In other words, are we giving something we will not really miss? Or is our giving a real sacrifice?

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By: Wayne wright https://wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com/nlt/2010/04/19/how-much-was-the-widows-mite/#comment-51 Wed, 23 May 2018 10:35:44 +0000 https://www.nltblog.com/?p=345#comment-51 I didn’t read every response but it seems that it is overlooked that the woman had enough during that time to have had one decent meal. or maybe even a small corner in an Inn but she knowing that the amount she had could not sustain for more than a short period of time decided to give it to the one that could sustain her forever. Trusting totally on God and not trying to work it out her self.

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By: Chloe Almario https://wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com/nlt/2010/04/19/how-much-was-the-widows-mite/#comment-50 Sun, 08 Apr 2018 12:28:56 +0000 https://www.nltblog.com/?p=345#comment-50 regardless of the value of her 2 mites, the Lord commended the FAITH of the widow. suffice it to say that her giving shames all the excesses some givers think— that giving to God’s work is like giving tips to waiters.

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By: Jim W https://wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com/nlt/2010/04/19/how-much-was-the-widows-mite/#comment-49 Fri, 17 Nov 2017 01:51:06 +0000 https://www.nltblog.com/?p=345#comment-49 It is discouraging that the passage of the Widows Mite has been turned into a fundraising game for pastors. If one carefully reads the passage in context it is about the corrupt Temple worship system “devouring poor widow’s houses” and illustrated by the poor widow placing her last two cents into the collection box. The text does not tell us that it was a generous contribution when in fact it could have been given because of guilt or fear. The text tells us that it was the last money she had and probably the next thing taken by the corrupt system would be the widow’s house. The precise value of the coins is not significant as it was everything she had. She was now destitute.

The Temple worship of that day can be compared to our modern Mafia. What does a Mafia do? They cheat people, skim money off the top and kill people just like the Pharisees did in the first century. So why is it an example of exemplary giving when a poor widow gives her last two cents to the Mafia? Jesus certainly would not approve of that and that is why he made no comment as to his approval or disapproval of the contribution. He merely acknowledged that she gave her all that was more than all the rest. In fact Jesus rebels against Corban just 5 chapters earlier against those that would not take care of their parents because they gave it all to God. Why would he now say this is a good thing to give all the money to a corrupt organization?

Immediately following the passage of the widow’s mite Jesus predicted the total destruction of the Temple. So are we to believe that the widow’s contribution to a corrupt organization that was to be destroyed is honorable or exemplary? . Hardly not.

One has to be extremely biased to try to use the widow’s mite as an example of exemplary giving and try to use the passage as a fundraiser. There are much better ways to talk about unselfish giving than the use the widow’s mite. God Bless.

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By: ollie https://wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com/nlt/2010/04/19/how-much-was-the-widows-mite/#comment-48 Sat, 12 Aug 2017 18:59:01 +0000 https://www.nltblog.com/?p=345#comment-48 Of course one can estabish value of the coin. You do that by establishing how much of a day’s worth of meals it would buy in that time. And then figuring out what the equivalent would be today. Back then for a poor person in that day it would have likely been a cheap grain and a cheap vegetable. It was likely enough that she went hungry that day.

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By: ksm https://wpmu3.northcentralus.cloudapp.azure.com/nlt/2010/04/19/how-much-was-the-widows-mite/#comment-47 Sun, 12 Feb 2017 02:18:13 +0000 https://www.nltblog.com/?p=345#comment-47 We can learn from this woman that none of us are too poor, or too troubled to please the Lord when one give sacrificially to him from a heart that loves Him and is not concerned with what men think. She gave not all that she had but all she had to live on. That is to say that if the two lepta were the days wage and she was living on what she earned that day, it was all she had to live on. She obviously gave at a cost of her necessary food for the day. May the Lord give us such hearts. 7yN9a13

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