Luke 21:2 - Exposition

And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. The mite ( λεπτόν ) was the smallest current coin. Two of these little pieces were the smallest legal offering which could be dropped into the "trumpet." But this sum, as the Heart-reader, who knew all things, tells us ( Luke 21:4 ), was every particle of money she had in the world ; and it was this splendid generosity on the part of the poor solitary widow which won the Lord's praise, which has touched the hearts of so many generations since, which has stirred up in so many hearts an admiration of an act so strangely beautiful, but well-nigh inimitable.