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As he taught them, he said, "Watch out for the kind of Torah-teachers who like to walk around in robes and be greeted deferen tially in the marketplaces,
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who like to have the best seats in the synagogues and take the places of honor at banquets,
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who like to swallow up widows' houses while making a show of davvening at great length. Their punishment will be all the worse!"
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Then Yeshua sat down opposite the Temple treasury and watched the crowd as they put money into the offering-boxes. Many rich people put in large sums,
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but a poor widow came and put in two small coins.
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He called his talmidim to him and said to them, "Yes! I tell you, this poor widow has put more in the offering-box than all the others making donations.
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For all of them, out of their wealth, have contributed money they can easily spare; but she, out of her poverty, has given everything she had to live on."