Luke 21:1
Jesus looked up from where he was sitting and saw rich people putting their gifts into the offering boxes in the Temple courtyard.
Translation for Translators
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 poor widow putting in two small copper coins.
Cross References
Joshua 6:19But all the silver and gold and articles made from iron and bronze that you find, you must set apart for Yahweh. You must put those things in his treasury.”
1 Kings 14:26They took away all the valuable things in the temple and in the king’s palace, including the gold shields that Solomon’s workers had made.
2 Chronicles 36:18His soldiers took to Babylon all the things that were used in God’s temple—big things and little things, all the valuable things, and the valuable things that belonged to the king and his officials.
Matthew 27:6Later the high priests found the coins. They picked them up and said, “This is money that we paid to have a man killed [MTY], and our law does not allow such money to be put {us to put such money} into the Temple treasury.”
Mark 12:41Later, Jesus sat down in the Temple courtyard opposite the boxes in which people put offerings. As he was sitting there, he watched as all the people put money in the box. Many rich people put in large amounts 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 →