vol. 40, Issue #1

Online Journal Article A Closer Look At The Widow’s Offering: Mark 12:41–44 - Geoffrey Smith -Jets 40/1 (March 1997) 27–36

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JETS 40/1 (March 1997) 27–36
A CLOSER LOOK AT THE WIDOW’S OFFERING:
MARK 12:41–44
GEOFFREY SMITH

The story of the widow’s offering as found in Mark 12:41–44 has long
provided the Church with an example of humble devotion to the Lord. F
urther, it speaks to the people of God about the true nature of giving. Calvin
considered this account as providing “a highly useful doctrine, that whatever
men oˆer to God ought to be estimated not by its apparent value, but
only by the feeling of the heart, and that the holy aˆection of him who,
according to his small means, oˆers to God the little that he has, is more
worthy of esteem than that of him who oˆers a hundred times more out of
his abundance.” The careful observer, however, will note a second theme in this account...
--from the first page of the article