εἶπεν : to whom not indicated. The narrator is concerned alone about the saying ἀληθῶς, for Mk.'s Hebrew ἀμὴν, as nearly always. πτωχὴ : Lk. does not avoid this word: the use of the other term in his preliminary narrative is a matter of style. πτωχὴ implies that the widow might have been expected to beg rather than to be giving to the temple treasury.

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Old Testament