Luke 21:1
He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.
One Unity Resource Bible
In The King James Version
And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
In Context
2He saw a certain poor widow casting in two small bronze coins.
Cross References
Matthew 27:6+ 27:6 (6-8) MP: Thirty pieces of silver is used to buy the potter’s field. (Zech 11:12-13) The chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, “It’s not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.”
Mark 12:41+ 12:41 (41-44) MP: Messiah has spiritual quickening, meaning discernment, to fear God rather than people, thus making right judgments based on God’s instructions (Lev 19:15). (Consider also Is 42:1c, 42:1d). (Is 11:3-4) Yeshua [Salvation] sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast brass coins into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.
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 →