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Reformed Church, but now an Orthodox priest serving at St. George Orthodox Cathedral in Charleston,

West Virginia.

And he looked up, now this is continuous, right? He's still here in the temple points.

He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow putting in two mites. So he said, truly I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all.

For all these out of their abundance have put in offerings for God. But she out of her poverty

put in all the livelihood that she had. So mites aren't even metal coins. They were clay coins.

So they're worth almost nothing.

I mean, they're one step up from a casino chip, right?

I mean, it's a, or monopoly money.

I mean, it's, this is what the, the extremely poor, you know, when you were barely scraping by, this is what you, you know, buy a handful of grain for a couple of mites.

That's, you know, this is no money.

This is two pennies now is probably an exaggeration over what this was in terms of quantity of money.

So what's the point Jesus making?

He sees all the rich people going and putting their money in.

Well, what does that mean?

That means that the rich people are going up and very visibly putting their money in.

They're sort of walking up and, you know, drop in a couple of, you know, gold shekels, you know, and then walk out into the temple, right?

You know, you got to get the thank you, right? You got to get the photo with the giant check.

Like, look, I'm giving you a little money.

Right? So they're doing this. Now, this is what? This is an illustration of what he was just saying about the scribes with the long robes and the long prayers and the, right? Here's an illustration of what he's talking about. All these wealthy people are coming up and they're throwing some money in the treasury. Right. But he sees this poor widow. Remember also what we've said about widows.

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