Reflections on Mark 12:38-44 for the Twenty-fifth Sunday after Pentecost

Abstract

The author shows how to read the story about the poor widow "from the inside out, from a close reading of the story itself, to its immediate Markan context, to its wider Markan contexts." She concludes that Jesus points to a three-times marginalized person--a woman who is poor and widowed--as a model disciple, who sacraficially gives, not just her money, but her whole life to others.