This little story comes at the end of Jesus' public life and just before his Passion. He is in the Temple at Jerusalem. He sees the people coming in and placing their offerings for the Temple in the treasury. It is implied that some people ostentatiously put in larger amounts to show the world the good religious people they were. However, there was one exception - a poverty-stricken widow. It was hardly necessary to say she was poor. As a widow, she was without material support and would be ignored both by her own family, which she had left, and the family of her late husband, to whom she was no longer of any use. She put two small coins into the treasury. Jesus pointed out to his disciples just what she was doing. Everyone else had put in money they could easily spare and one can be certain they had plenty more. The widow, on the other hand, put in all she had to live on. The point is made that she had two coins and, given her poverty, would have been perfectly entitled to put in only one. Her act was a sign of total trust in God. And she is also seen as a symbol of Jesus himself who surrendered his whole life out of love for us. "The greatest love a person can show is to give their life for their friend." Is there a lesson here for all of us?