Mark 12:35-44

35While Jesus was teaching in the temple, he asked, “How can the scribes say that the Messiah is the son of David?

36David himself says by the Holy Spirit: The Lord declared to my Lord, ‘Sit at my right hand until I put your enemies under your feet.’

37David himself calls him ‘Lord.’ How, then, can he be his son?” And the large crowd was listening to him with delight.

38He also said in his teaching, “Beware of the scribes, who want to go around in long robes and who want greetings in the marketplaces,

39the best seats in the synagogues, and the places of honor at banquets.

40They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher judgment.”

41Sitting across from the temple treasury, he watched how the crowd dropped money into the treasury. Many rich people were putting in large sums.

42Then a poor widow came and dropped in two tiny coins worth very little.

43Summoning his disciples, he said to them, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.

44For they all gave out of their surplus, but she out of her poverty has put in everything she had — all she had to live on.”