WIDOW'S MITE

WIDOW’S MITE

JESUS WAS RESTING

IN THE COURT OF THE WOMEN

HE’S BEEN WRESTLING WITH THE SCRIBES

THEIR MOTIVES

WERE NOT TO MAKE MEN’S LIVES BETTER

BUT TO MAKE RELIGION ONEROUS

HE WAS WATCHING THE OFFERING PRACTICES

OF SOME INDIVIDUALS

A MAN RICHLY DRESSED

MAKING DRAMATIC GESTURES

AS IF SEMAPHORING GOD

LOOK HOW GENEROUS I AM

THREW VIOLENTLY

HIS COINS AT THE TRUMPET

A METAL DEVICE

LIKE A FUNNEL

IN WHICH COINS WERE PLACED

TO FALL INTO THE COLLECTION BOX

BELOW IT

HIS OBJECT

WAS TO MAKE A LOUD NOISE

COINS AGAINST METAL

SO BYSTANDERS WOULD KNOW HOW GENEROUS HE WAS

HE’S ALREADY TOLD GOD

ADJUSTING HIS ROBE

FROM HIS ACTIVITIES

HE WALKED PROUDLY

HEAD HELD HIGH

SURE HE WAS THE CENTER OF ATTENTION

INTO THE TEMPLE

BEHIND HIM

A NEW WIDOW

WITH CHILDREN CLUTCHING AT HER SKIRT

DODGING THE RICHMAN’S WINDMILL ARMS

GENTLY PUT IN TWO LEPTON

COINS WHICH TOGETHER

WERE WORTH LESS THAN A PENNY

THEIR NAME MEANS THIN ONES

IT WAS ALL SHE HAD

THE COINS FELL LIKE A WHISPER INTO THE BOX

THE WIDOW WALKED AWAY

REGRETTING IT WASN’T MORE

NOW NOT ALL RICH PEOPLE ARE EVIL

NOT ALL POOR PEOPLE ARE GOOD

JESUS USES HYPERBOLE

EXAGGERATION

STEREOTYPES

TO TEACH LESSONS

IT WASN’T THE AMOUNT OF THE COINS

THAT WAS IMPORTANT

BUT THE HEART THAT GAVE THEM

PERHAPS SHE WAS PRAYING FOR HER HUSBAND’S SOUL

PRAYING THE HAZKARA

JEWISH PRAYER FOR THE DEAD

Have mercy upon him; pardon all his transgressions . . . Shelter his soul in the shadow of Thy wings. Make known to him the path of life."

THE SOUND OF THE GENTLE FALLING COINS

OF THE WIDOW

HAVE BECOME AN ECHO

A LESSON

TO WHICH WE SHOULD GIVE HEED

FRANK A VOLLMER