Jesus speaks about giving in several passages. But Luke 21, is where Jesus observes people giving their offerings at the temple. He points out a poor widow who gives two small coins, which was all she had to live on. Jesus tells his disciples that her small offering was greater than all the others because she gave out of her poverty, while the others gave out of their abundance. This emphasizes the value of sacrificial giving and the heart behind the act, rather than the monetary amount of the gift. It’s a powerful message about generosity, and the importance of intentions when giving to God.
It reads in Luke 21:1-4 Easy English Bible> Then Jesus looked up and saw something that was happening in the temple. There was a box for money there. Many rich people were putting their gifts of money into the box. Then he saw a woman coming there. Her husband had died and she was very poor. She put two small coins that had only a little value into the box. ‘Let me tell you this,’ Jesus said. ‘This poor woman has put a better gift into the box than all the other people have put in there. All those rich people have plenty of money. They only gave a small part of that. But this woman has almost nothing. She put everything that she had into the box. That money was what she needed to live.’