Bible Game · Chapter 20
The Widow's Two Mites
At the temple treasury, the rich are putting in large sums. A poor widow comes and drops in two small coins — two mites. By the amount the eye can see, the rich gave far more.
New Testament · Mark 12 · at the temple treasury
Unfamiliar words in this case
- lepton — the smallest coin of the time. Two of them together came to far less than a day's wage — a very small sum. This is what the widow put in.
The painting in this case
João Zeferino da Costa · 1876 · National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro — the Rome-trained Brazilian painter set two women side by side at the temple treasury: the richly robed giver, and the poor widow in a black veil with her child. He placed them face to face so the eye could weigh much against little.
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