NEW TESTAMENT

Luke 12:59

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I tell you, you will by no means get out of there until you have paid the very last penny.”

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literally, lepton. A lepton is a very small brass Jewish coin worth half a Roman quadrans each, which is worth a quarter of the copper assarion. Lepta are worth less than 1% of an agricultural worker’s daily wages.

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