A KORA OF KORAS

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Jesus and the Widow’s Mite
I t is written in the New Testament:
“And He (Jesus) sat down over against the treasury (of the temple in Jerusalem), a
nd beheld how the multitude cast money into the treasury: and many that were
rich cast in much. And there came a poor widow, and she cast in two mites, which
make a farthing. And He called unto Him His disciples, and said unto them,
Verily I say unto you, This poor widow cast in more than all them which are
casting into the treasury; for they all did cast in of their superfluity; but she of her
want did cast in all that she had, even all her living.”
- Mark 12:41-44
Jesus clarified the true, real and necessary sacrifice; it was not the amount of
money or other symbols of wealth (animals, grains, blood), it was not the sacrifice
of our excess, but the sacrifice of ‘our want’, the sacrifice of ‘all our living.’ He
points to sacrifice not merely as an action, but an understanding, a condition, a
state of living and ultimately a Realization in which ‘all we have,’ our very ‘self,’ is
truly always and already sacrificed to, or sublimed in the living God.