Sentences with phrase «widow gave»

A police officer's widow gave birth to his daughter this week, three years after he was killed in the line of duty.

In His estimation, «The truth is that this poor widow gave more to the collection than all the others put together.

Actually Jesus most popular tithing moment was when the widow gave ALL that she had.

In this case, the context both before and after make the point pretty clear about how Jesus felt when the poor widow gave her last two pennies to the temple.

Yesterday we looked briefly at how most people understand the passage about the Widow's Mites, where a poor widow gives her last two coins to the temple.

In Mark 12, right before Jesus observes and comments upon the rich giving from their wealth and the widow giving from her poverty, Jesus condemns the religious leaders for their pride, arrogance, self - prominence, and greed.

They observed the rich giving large amounts of money, and then saw a poor widow giving two mites.

These two passages are where Jesus is asked about paying taxes to Caesar, and when Jesus observes a poor widow giving her last two coins to the temple.

He only recognized people who remained anonymous, like the widow giving her offering.

Not exact matches

Scottish Widows and Lloyds said in a statement they had given notice to SLA of their plans to terminate the deal, kick - starting a 12 - month process to find a replacement provider or providers.

An article on Friday about the philanthropic work of Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Steven P. Jobs, misspelled the given name of the overseer of education grants and investments at Emerson Collective, Ms. Powell Jobs's charitable organization.

The chart below from the Congressional Research Service describes the costs to taxpayers of the four former presidents and one widow, Nancy Reagan, who were given pensions and benefits in fiscal year 2015.

They all shared what they had equally, gave to those who had none, took care of the widows, the orphans and the poor.

I will give up a week's pay into a fund for the widow.

My reading of the Gospels shows that status can be obtained by giving and praying in secret; power comes to the quiet servant; and god's approval is upon those that work among the wounded, poor, widows, orphans, hungry, thirsty, sick, prisoners, homeless, and unclothed.

Could it really be that only three verses later, Jesus is now praising the sacrifice of a widow for giving her last two coins to the temple?

He gives judgment for the orphan and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.

Now I have reread the two verses before the widows mite incident, I can see that Jesus was showing up the hypocritical attitudes of the priests who must have convinced this woman that unless she gave what they said was required she wood be insulting God.

Unfortunately, all to often, the church leadership resembles a cross between a FaceBook Friend, and a Nigerian widow tnat wants to give you some money from her deceased husband's estate.

With regard to others, it is our duty to cultivate within ourselves respect for the sacred and to show the face of the revealed God — the God who has compassion for the poor and the weak, for widows and orphans, for the foreigner; the God who is so human that he himself became man, a man who suffered, and who by his suffering with us gave dignity and hope to our pain.

What title do we give to a poor, unemployed widow?

Another convert priest who had been married but was widowed before he was finally ordained, Fr Ronald Walls, admits in his autobiography that even as a Presbyterian minister he had felt torn between «giving himself totally to his wife and family and «giving himself to the people to whom God had sent him.

The blessed life is the life of the widow, the life of she who gives, and she who trusts.

Sometimes the clue to the reality of their individuality is given only by a phrase — a widow, a younger son; sometimes we see the ligaments and joints of the history, as in Peter's case.

It is a strange picture that we are given of Jesus during these first days in the temple: arguing freely with Sadducees, scribes, and Pharisees; parrying more or less subtle attempts to lure him into statements that could be used against him; answering sincere questions and approving good answers to his own questions; pronouncing fiery invectives against influential teachers who opposed him; lamenting the failure of Jerusalem to respond to his challenge; and then calmly pointing out to his disciples the tiny but sacrificial offering of a poor widow.

Jeremiah, pouring out before God everything he felt, poured out his vindictiveness: «Bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction»; (Jeremiah 17:18) «Deliver up their children to the famine, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives become childless, and widows; and let their men be slain of death, and their young men smitten of the sword in battle....

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

The egg - giver, a widow who sees less than $ 100 go in and out of her household in a year, had no coins for the collection, so she brought what God had given her that very morning.

Daniel's wife had just given birth that day, and is left a widow with a newborn infant, whose home is destroyed.

Just as He thought it was tragic that the widow was giving money to the temple, He also seems to think that the wealthy should not have been giving to the temple either, especially when you consider how the temple was improperly spending the money.

Collections for poor saints (widows, orphans, crippled etc.) 1Co 16:1 - 2 Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

It has to do with «a dynamic concept» (Jeromias, 1974: 121) which indicates a divine sovereignty that does not consist in handing down impartial verdicts but in the protection that the king ensures is given to the weak and the poor, to widows and orphans, and not so much with a particular place or abstract idea.

If this is the case with the widow, what did Jesus think about the wealthy people giving to the temple?

This time, suppose the widow, due to her failing eyesight, mistakenly gives the clerk nine pennies and one dime for the loaf of bread which costs only ten cents.

Jesus is not too concerned about their wealth (except that maybe some of them had gained their riches through devouring widow's houses), nor even with how much they are giving to the temple.

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The poor widow, on the other hand, though she only gave two mites, gave 100 % of what she had, and left with nothing.

The widow, though she had almost nothing, gave what she had, and Jesus praised her for it.

What about the person who gives the widow's mite?

When you have finished paying all the tithe of your produce in the third year (which is the year of the tithe), giving it to the Levites, the aliens, the orphans, and the widows, so that they may eat their fill within your towns, then you shall say before the Lord your God: «I have removed the sacred portion from the house, and I have given it to the Levites, the resident aliens, the orphans, and the widows, in accordance with your entire commandment that you commanded me; I have neither transgressed nor forgotten any of your commandments» — NRSV Deuteronomy 26:10 - 13

God looked at the widow as faithful, man looks at the outward appearance and sees a woman giving the smallest denomination possible.

I suppose you two would have sneered at the widow who gave all that she had, a mite, and wondered why she wasn't giving more.

It's like giving a widow flowers and feeling like you did your part.

Christ complimented the widow who only threw two «coins» (about one dollar) into the treasury (Mark 12:42).84 Christ said she had given more than all the others he saw giving that day because she gave even though she herself was in need.

Since the third Caliph had not been chosen at the time of Umar's death, he gave it to his daughter Hafsah who was one of the widows of the Prophet.

Waqfs were established to furnish trousseaux for orphan girls, for paying the debts of imprisoned or bankrupt businessmen, for clothing for the aged, to help pay village and neighborhood taxes, to help the army and the navy, to found trade guilds, to give land for public markets, to build lighthouses, to help orphans and widows and the destitute, to care for the needs of poor school children and to give them picnics, to pay for the funerals of the poor, to provide holiday gifts for poor families, to build seaside cottages for holidays for the people, to distribute ice - cold water during the summer, to create public playing fields, to distribute rice to birds, and to give food and water to animals.

Jesus is not condemning the rich people for being wealthy, or for giving out of their wealth, nor is he praising the poor widow for giving her last two mites.

I only wish translators had had similar chutzpah at Luke 18:5 and had placed their more accurate footnote in the text: «so that she [the importunate widow] may not finally come and slap me in the face» — the term is from boxing, more literally, «give a black eye.»

Just like the widow who gave all she had — a hundredth part of a penny — the poor produce all the wealth that is sucked up by the rich.

But the widow wasn't given the duty that Paul was, wasn't grafted for «that» or «those» works.