42And a poor widow came and put in two 12:42 The smallest Greek copper coin, about 1/128 of a laborer’s daily wagelepta coins, which amount to a 12:42 A small Roman copper coin, worth about 1/64 of a laborer’s daily wagequadrans.
42A poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amount to a 12:42 The least valuable Roman coin, which amounted to only one sixty-fourth of a day’s wages for a laborer; traditionally called the “widow’s mite.”mite.
42Then one poor widow came and put in two small copper coins, which amounted to a small fraction of a denarius.12:42 Greek put in two lepta, which is a kodrantēs; a lepton was a Jewish coin of bronze or copper worth about 1/128 of a denarius.