Luke 21:1
Looking around, Jesus watched rich people putting their gifts into the collection box.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
In Context
2He also saw a very poor widow put in two small coins.
Cross References
Joshua 6:19All the silver and the gold, and everything made of bronze and iron, are holy to the Lord and they must be placed in the Lord's treasury.”
1 Kings 14:26He took the treasures of the Lord's Temple and the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.
2 Chronicles 36:18He took back to Babylon all the articles, large and small, from God's Temple, and from the Temple treasury, and from the king and from his officials.
Matthew 27:6The chief priests took the silver coins and said, “This is blood money, so it's not lawful to put this in the Temple treasury.”
Mark 12:41Jesus sat down opposite the treasury collection box, watching people tossing in coins. Many of the rich were extravagantly throwing in a lot of money.
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 →