The Widow's Coins: An Indictment Disguised as a Compliment — Luke 21:1-4

He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury. He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small brass coins. He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow put in more than all of them, for all these put in gifts for God from their abundance, but she, out of her poverty, put in all that she had to live on.” — Jesus doesn't celebrate her sacrifice — he indicts the system that demanded it.