And when he sat opposite the collecting box, he watched how the crowd threw money into the collecting box and many rich people were putting† in large amounts. 

And a poor widow having come, put in two leptons* (that is equal to a quadrans + ). And having called his disciples, he said to them: ‘Truly, I tell you that this poor widow put in† more than everyone else who put into† the collecting box.  For everyone else puts in† out of their abundance, but she, from her poverty, put in all that she had, the whole of her life. 

*two small copper coins, the smallest coins in circulation in Palestine
+ the smallest Roman coin = 1/64th of a Denarius (a day’s wage)
† throwing

God be in head and in my understanding;
God be in my eyes and in my looking;
God be in my mouth and in my speaking;
God be in my heart and in my thinking;
God be at my end and at my departing.