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And now, as the evening drew on and the crowds went in quest of nourishment, Jesus and his
immediate followers were left alone. What a strange day it had been! The apostles were
thoughtful, but speechless. Never, in their years of association with Jesus, had they seen such a
day. For a moment they sat down by the treasury, watching the people drop in their
contributions: the rich putting much in the receiving box and all giving something in accordance
with the extent of their possessions. At last there came along a poor widow, scantily attired, and
they observed as she cast two mites (small coppers) into the trumpet. And then said Jesus, calling
the attention of the apostles to the widow: "Heed well what you have just seen. This poor widow
cast in more than all the others, for all these others, from their superfluity, cast in some trifle as a
gift, but this poor woman, even though she is in want, gave all that she had, even her living."