Luke 21:1
And looking around, he saw the wealthy putting their donations into the offertory.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
In Context
2Then he also saw a certain widow, a pauper, putting in two small brass coins.
Cross References
Joshua 6:19But whatever gold and silver there will be, and vessels of brass or of iron, let these be consecrated to the Lord and be stored in his treasuries.”
1 Kings 14:26And he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the royal treasures, and he plundered everything, including the shields of gold that Solomon had made.
2 Chronicles 36:18And all the vessels of the house of Lord, as much the greater as the lesser, and the treasures of the temple, and of the king and the rulers, he carried away to Babylon.
Matthew 27:6But the leaders of the priests, having taken up the pieces of silver, said, “It is not lawful to put them into the temple offerings, because it is the price of blood.”
Mark 12:41And Jesus, sitting opposite the offertory box, considered the way in which the crowd cast coins into the offertory, and that many of the wealthy cast in a great deal.
Matthew Henry on Luke 21:1
In this chapter we have, I. The notice Christ took, and the approbation he gave, of a poor widow that cast two mites into the treasury, ver. 1-4 . II. A prediction of future events, in answer to his disciples' enquiries concerning them, ver. 5-7 . 1. Of what should happen between that and the destruction of Jerusalem—false Christs arising, bloody wars and persecutions of Christ's followers, ver. 8-19 . 2. Of that destruction itself, ver. 20-24 . 3. Of the second coming of Jesus Christ to judge the world, under the… Read the whole commentary →