The lesson of the widow's mite or the widow's offering is presented in two of the Synoptic Gospels, when Jesus is teaching in the Temple in Jerusalem. The Gospel of Mark specifies that two mites are t
A bronze mite, also known as a Prutah or Lepton (meaning small), minted by Alexander Jannaeus, King of Judaea, 103–76 BC and still in circulation at the time of Jesus