Charles Ellicott Commentary Mark 12:43

"And he called unto him his disciples, and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, This poor widow cast in more than all they that are casting into the treasury:" — Mark 12:43 (ASV)

And he called his disciples to him.—The act was significant. He sought to teach them to judge acts by a standard other than a quantitative one. For him the widow’s mites and the ointment that might have been sold for 300 pence stood on the same level, insofar as each was the expression of a generous and self-sacrificing love.