Mark 12:41-44 And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.… The eldest son of a widowed mother went out to missionary work in Western Africa. In a short time he filled a missionary's grave. There was another son left at home, and he came to his mother and said, "Mother, let me go, and I will take my stand by my brother's grave. I will preach to my brother's people. I will tell them of my brother's God." He went, and it was not long before there were two graves in that heathen land, and the brothers were sleeping side by side; at least their ashes were; their spirits, no doubt, were safe in the heavenly land. The news came to the mother, and the story said she wept sore. Her mourning friends tried to comfort her, "Oh," she said "you do not understand my grief. I am not mourning because two of my lads have filled a missionary's grave in Africa. I grieve because I have not a third son to die in the same cause." (Handbook to Scripture Doctrines.) Parallel Verses KJV: And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much. |
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