Religious Studies GCSE

Wealth and poverty

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The contrast between the rich, who gave out of their surplus wealth, and the widow, who out of her poverty gave everything she had to live on.

AQA · Theme H: St Mark’s Gospel as a source of religious, moral and spiritual truths

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Theme H: St Mark’s Gospel as a source of religious, moral and spiritual truths (AQA GCSE)

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