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The Antiochan Stater is one possibility for the identity of the coins making up the thirty pieces. A Tyrian shekel, another possibility for the type of coin involved. The word used in Matthew 26:15 (ἀργύρια, argyria) simply means "silver coins", [10] and scholars disagree on the type of coins that would have been used.
A number of coins are mentioned in the Bible, and they have proved very popular among coin collectors. [1] Specific coins mentioned in the Bible include the widow's mite, the tribute penny and the thirty pieces of silver, though it is not always possible to identify the exact coin that was used.
The coins may also have been the woman's dowry, worn as an ornament. [3] [4] Both theories may be true, and either one explains the urgency of the woman's search, and the extent of her joy when the missing coin is found.
A bronze mite, also known as a Lepton (meaning small), minted by Alexander Jannaeus, King of Judaea, 103–76 BC and still in circulation at the time of Jesus [1]. The lesson of the widow's mite or the widow's offering is presented in two of the Synoptic Gospels (Mark 12:41–44 and Luke 21:1–4), when Jesus is teaching in the Temple in Jerusalem.
Then all the tax collectors and the sinners drew near to Him to hear Him. [7]This is the third mention by Luke of the tax collectors (Greek: οι τελωναι, hoi telōnai, also translated as "publicans"); they were previously one of the groups who answered John the Baptist's call to repentance, [8] and Jesus ate with them, amidst the Pharisees' earlier complaints, in chapter 5.
Of all the "Bible stuff" Robby Greene told him, the first and only Biblical story Jack liked was the parable of a pearl of great price. Jack eventually realized his ship, the Wicked Wench , was like his pearl of great price, so when Davy Jones raised his beloved ship from the bottom of the sea, now half burned and with her hull and masts all ...
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The lesson may be summed up in this wise: … Be diligent; for the day in which you can use your earthly riches will soon pass. Take a lesson from even the dishonest and the evil; if they are so prudent as to provide for the only future they think of, how much more should you, who believe in an eternal future, provide therefor!