Mark 12:41 (WEB)
Jesus sat down opposite the treasury and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.
Catechism · 1
“This love is inspired by the Gospel of the Beatitudes, of the poverty of Jesus, and of his concern for the poor.” — Catechism footnote: CA 57; cf. Lk 6:20-22, Mt 8:20; Mk 12:41-44.
Fathers and councils · 8
Augustine of Hippo
“But he brings it in after a digression of some small extent, which is made with a view to mention the case of the widow who put the two mites into the treasury, which occurrence is recorded only by Mark and Luke.” — editor's note: Mark xii. 41-xiii. 2.
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Jerome
“The widow cast but two brass coins into the treasury and yet she shall be preferred before Crœsus with all his wealth.” — editor's note: Mark xii. 41–44.
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Catena Aurea on Mark
- BedeCatena Aurea on Mark
The Lord, who had warned them to avoid the desire of high place and vain glory, now distinguishes by a sure test those who brought in gifts. Wherefore it is said, “And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld…
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Now there was a praiseworthy custom amongst the Jews, that those who were able and willing should put something into the treasury, for the maintenance of the priests, the poor, and the widows. Wherefore there is…
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Reckoners use the words “quadrans” for the fourth part of any thing, be it place, money, or time. Perhaps then in this place is meant the fourth part of a shekel, this is, five pence. It goes on: “And He called unto…
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But in a mystical sense, they are rich, who bring forth from the treasure of their heart things new and old, which are the obscure and hidden things of Divine wisdom in both testaments; but who is the poor woman, if…
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Or else; that widow is the soul of man, which leaving Satan to which it had been joined, casts into the temple two mites, that is, the flesh and the mind, the flesh by abstinence, the mind by humility, that so it may…
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Again, in an allegorical way, the rich men, who cast gifts into the treasury, point out the Jews puffed up with the righteousness of the law; the poor widow is the simplicity of the Church: poor indeed, because she…
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Cross-references · 8
Cited together in Catechism §2444.
Cited together in Catechism §2444.
Cited together in Catechism §2444.
Cited together in Bede on Mark 12:41–44 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §2444.
Cited together in Bede on Mark 12:41–44 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Jerome on Mark 12:41–44 (Catena Aurea).
Cited together in Catechism §2444.