The widow's mite

Saint Mark - Chapter 12

She of her want cast in all she had. J-J Tissot

[41] Et sedens Jesus contra gazophylacium, aspiciebat quomodo turba jactaret aes in gazophylacium, et multi divites jactabant multa.
And Jesus sitting over against the treasury, beheld how the people cast money into the treasury, and many that were rich cast in much.

[42] Cum venisset autem vidua una pauper, misit duo minuta, quod est quadrans,
And there came a certain poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which make a farthing.

[43] et convocans discipulos suos, ait illis : Amen dico vobis, quoniam vidua haec pauper plus omnibus misit, qui miserunt in gazophylacium.
And calling his disciples together, he saith to them: Amen I say to you, this poor widow hath cast in more than all they who have cast into the treasury.

[44] Omnes enim ex eo, quod abundabat illis, miserunt : haec vero de penuria sua omnia quae habuit misit totum victum suum.
For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want cast in all she had, even her whole living.

Totus tuus ego sum 

Et omnia mea tua sunt;

Tecum semper tutus sum:
Ad Jesum per Mariam