Luke 21:1

Luke 21:1-4. The Widow's Mite.

1. he looked up The expression seems to shew that He was sitting with downcast eyes, saddened, perhaps, in His human spirit and agitated by the great Denunciation; but this last little incident is -like a rose amid a field of thistles," an act genuinely beautiful in the desert of -official devotion."

the rich men More literally, "He saw those who were casting their gifts into the treasury rich men."St Mark tells us that the gifts were large (Mark 12:41).

into the treasury See John 8:20. This was in the Court of the Women. The High Priest Jehoiada had put a chest for this purpose at the entrance of the House, 2 Kings 12:9; see Nehemiah 10:38; Jos. B. J. vi. 5; Antt.xix. 6, § 1, and Malachi 3:6; Malachi 3:6-12. It contained the Corban, Matthew 27:6. But in our Lord's day there were thirteen chests called Shopheroth, from their trumpet-shaped openings, adorned with various inscriptions. These rich men do not seem to have been observing the injunctions both sacred and Talmudic to give secretly, Matthew 6:4; Matthew 6:18.