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Mark 12:44
Mark 12:44
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unthankful husbandmen, representing the sin and ruin of the Jewish
church, ver. 1-12. II. Christ's silencing those who thought to ensnare
him…Mark 12:1-44Mark 12:1-44 · The Pulpit CommentaryEXPOSITIONMark 12:41-44Mark 12:41-44 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis passage of story was not in Matthew, but is here and in Luke; it
is Christ's commendation of the poor widow, that cast two mites into
the treasury, which our Saviour, busy as he was in preaching, found…Mark 12:41-44Mark 12:41-44 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe widow's mite.
The presence of this poor widow, among unspiritual and ostentatious worshippers and offerers, is as a sunbeam amidst the gloom, a rose in the wilderness. It is a touching picture, this of the lonely…Mark 12:41-44Mark 12:41-44 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe widow's two mites.
The treasury, "in front of the sanctuary," consisted of thirteen brazen chests, called "trumpets" from their peculiar, shape, "swelling out beneath, and tapering upward into a narrow mouth or…Mark 12:41-44Mark 12:41-44 · The Pulpit CommentaryThe widow's gift.
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