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The widow is presented as a model of this love. Unlike the rich who "threw into the treasury many coins," she does not put much; she throws everything she has, indeed, as the Greek text specifies, "in her poverty she threw her whole life into it" (v. 44). The disciple is not the one who puts a part of himself or what he has at stake but sells everything he has to give it to the poor and offers his whole life as the Master did. Like the widow in today's Gospel, even those who are poor are called to give everything.