Welcome back to our Bible study on the Gospel of Mark.

We're now in the temple where Jesus is teaching.

We've seen the conflict growing, and we know where this is going to lead to.

And at the end of chapter 12, we get one little episode.

It's one little episode of light in the midst of all the challenges and all the people pursuing Jesus

and trying to ensnare and entrap him.

And it's a story of a widow who comes and she

puts two copper coins in verse 41 and following of Mark 12. And there's other people putting in

great sums of money into the treasury. And she comes and puts in two copper coins, which makes a

penny. And he called his disciples to him and said to them,

Amen, I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all those

who contributed to the treasury, for they all contributed out of their abundance,

but she, out of her poverty, put in everything she had her whole BIOS, literally her whole life,

which we translate livelihood, because that's kind of the meaning. But I like the idea of,

I think there's a play on that word that she put in her whole life, right? She gives everything.

Now, of course, the contrast is with those who are giving a lot, and there was, there was something special Marx doing here that I want to back up and keep it to the big picture. And that is, we're going to get in chapter 13 what is known as the eschatological discourse, which is a big Greek word, big theological word, eschatological. What does that mean?

Eschatology means the end things, the last things. And so it's going to be about the end

of the temple. And in a sense, it's going to have a reference to the end of the world.

And that gets people interested. All right. Eschatology doesn't sound very exciting, you say oh end of the world I want to you know I want to pay attention to

that and find out what the signs and clues are for the end so Jesus is going to

talk about the end of the temple and and perhaps the end of the world here but

framing that is a story of two women the widow who gives gives her last penny in a contribution to God at the temple.

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