They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything — all she had to live on — the contrast is complete: they gave out of their wealth (the surplus, the overflow that cost them nothing essential) while she gave out of her poverty (the deficit, the nothing that cost her everything). All she had to live on — the two lepta were not a token offering from reserve but the entirety of her daily sustenance. The widow who gave everything to the temple whose leaders devour widows' houses is Mark's most devastating irony of the Jerusalem section.

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