NEW TESTAMENT

Matthew 5:26

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Most certainly I tell you, you shall by no means get out of there until you have paid the last penny.

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literally, kodrantes. A kodrantes was a small copper coin worth about 2 lepta (widow’s mites)—not enough to buy very much of anything.

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