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Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary (4 vols)

Luke 21:1-4

In this section Luke records the assault of the Sadducees respecting the resurrection (Luke 20:27-40); then omitting the lawyer's question, he tells of our Lord's unanswered question respecting Christ the Son of David (Luke 20:41-44); like Mark he gives but a brief summary of the discourse against the Pharisees (‘scribes,' Luke 20:45-47), with which the public teaching in the temple closed, though one other incident is mentioned as occurring while He lingered there (the widow's mites, chap. Luke 21:1-4). In some cases this account agrees more closely with that of Matthew, in others with that of Mark, and sometimes all three have their special points of difference.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    CHAPTER XXI. _The poor widow casting two mites into the treasury_, 1-4. _the destruction of the temple foretold_, 5, 6. _The signs of this desolation_, 7. _False Christs_, 8. _Wars_, 9, 10. Eart...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    See this explained in the notes at Mark 12:41. Luke 21:4 PENURY - Poverty. See this explained in the notes at Mark 12:41....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 21 _ 1. The Widow's Mite. (Luke 21:1)_ 2. The Destruction of the Temple Predicted. (Luke 21:5) 3. The Disciple's Question Concerning the Future. (Luke 21:7) 4. Things to Come. ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WIDOW'S TWO MITES. With some abbreviation Lk. closely follows Mark 12:41 *....

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    Jesus looked up and saw those who were putting their gifts into the treasury--rich people--and he saw a poor widow putting in two lepta. So he said, "I tell you truly that this poor widow has put in m...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE PRECIOUS GIFT (Luke 21:1-4)...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    AND HE LOOKED UP, &c. The Lord was still in the Temple, showing that this prophetic discourse is not the same as that spoken later on the Mount of Olives. They are similar to Luke 21:11, when the Lord...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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; bu...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    Luke 21:1-4. THE WIDOW’S MITE...

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ἈΝΑΒΛΈΨΑΣ ΔΈ. The expression seems to shew that He was sitting with downcast eyes, saddened, perhaps, in His spirit and agitated by the great Denunciation; but this last little incident is ‘like a ros...

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    VER 1. AND HE LOOKED UP, AND SAW THE RICH MEN CASTING THEIR GIFTS INTO THE TREASURY. 2. AND HE SAW ALSO A CERTAIN POOR WIDOW CASTING IN THITHER TWO MITES. 3. AND HE SAID, OF A TRUTH I SAY TO YOU, THAT...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΆΝΑΒΛΈΨΑΣ _aor. act. part. (temp.) от_ ΆΝΑΒΛΈΠΩ (G308) смотреть вверх, ΕΪ́ΔΕΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΌΡΆΩ (G3708) видеть, ΒΆΛΛΟΝΤΑΣ _praes. act. part. (adj.) от_ ΒΆΛΛΩ (G906) бросать. _Praes._ указыва...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Presentment of Sion's Default (Luke 21:1-4) 21 He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury; 2and he saw a poor widow put in two copper coins. 3And...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. Most touching is the connection between the denunciations against those grasping ecclesiastics who "devoured widows' ho...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    24 Two kinds of coins were in circulation, the Roman and the Jewish. The temple taxes had to be paid in the Jewish shekel, the Roman in the foreign currency. The fact that they had accepted the conque...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WIDOW'S MITE. PROPHECY OF THE FALL OF JERUSALEM AND THE SECOND ADVENT 1-4. The widow's mite (Mark 12:41). See on Mk....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 21 THE WIDOW’S *OFFERING 21:1-4 V1 Jesus looked up and watched the rich men. They dropped their money into the boxes in the *Temple. V2 He also saw a...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    XXI. (1-4) AND SAW THE RICH MEN CASTING THEIR GIFTS. — See Notes on Mark 12:41. This may, perhaps, be thought of as one of the incidents which St. Luke derived from verbal communication with his brot...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    ἀναβλέψας, looking up, giving the impression of a casual, momentary glance taken by one who had been previously preoccupied with very different matters. Mk's narrative conveys the idea of deliberate,...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _The widow's offering_ (Mark 12:41-44), unfortunately placed at the beginning of this chapter, which should have been devoted wholly to Christ's solemn discourse concerning the future. Yet this mal-ar...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    DAVID'S LORD TESTING MEN AND WOMEN Luke 20:41-47; Luke 21:1-4 It was the Master's turn to question. As man, He was David's descendant and son; as the Son of God, He was his Lord. Though it sealed His...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here we have another illustration of the fact that nothing could escape the Master's vigilance. Of the gifts being cast into the treasury He was the true Appraiser. He saw the widow as she cast in her...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And (1) he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. (1) According to the judgment of God, the poor may even exceed the rich in generosity and liberality....

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    CHAPTER 20 COMING OF THE LORD Matthew 24; Matthew 25; Mark 13; Luke 21. It is now in the afternoon, on Wednesday, preceding the arrest of our Savior about midnight the ensuin

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    CHAPTER 19 THE WIDOW'S MITE Luke 21:1-4; Mark 12:41-44. “Jesus, sitting in front of the treasury, was seeing how the multitude cast their money into the treasury. And one poor widow, having come, cas...

  • Godet's commentary on Luke, John, Romans, 1 Corinthians

    8. _The Widow's Alms: Luke 21:1-4_. VERS. 1-4. This piece is wanting in Matthew. Why would he have rejected it, if, according to Holtzmann's view, he had before him the document from which the other t...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    CONTENTS The Lord Jesus foretells of the Destruction of the Temple. He answers the anxious Questions of His Disciples, in fortifying their Minds with suitable Advice for the Approaching Trials....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The last chapter gave in the judgment of present things, another world and eternal things in good and evil, the Lord's instruction for the disciples after the dealings of grace in Luke 15:1-32, and th...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The Lord's discourse in chapter 21 displays the character of the Gospel in a peculiar manner. The spirit of grace, in contrast with the Judaic spirit, is seen in the account of the poor widow's offeri...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND HE LOOKED UP,.... As Christ sat over against the treasury, looking upon the ground, he lift up his eyes; for the treasury was not in an high place, or above Christ, who was right against it. The S...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. Ver. 1. _See Trapp on "_ Mar 12:41 _"_...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And he looked up_ From those on whom his eyes were fixed before; _and saw the rich men casting their gifts_, &c. See on Mark 12:41....

  • Justin Edwards' Family Bible New Testament (1851)

    The widow's two mites. Mark 12:41-44....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE WIDOW'S GIFT....

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AND HE LOOKED UP AND SAW THE RICH MEN CASTING THEIR GIFTS INTO THE TREASURY....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WIDOW'S TWO MITES (vs.1-4) The first four verses are a continuation of the sublect of Chapter 20. If the scribes had no regard for widows, God takes full account of them. Rich men may donate larg...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-4 From the offering of this poor widow, learn that what we rightly give for the relief of the poor, and the support of God's worship, is given unto God; and our Saviour sees with pleasure whatever w...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    LUKE CHAPTER 21 LUKE 21:1 Christ values the poor widow's two mites above all the larger offerings of the rich, LUKE 21:5,6 foretells the destruction of the temple, LUKE 21:7 the signs and calamities t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Luke 21:1 And G1161 up G308 (G5660) saw G1492 (G5627) rich G4145 putting G906 (G5723) their...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘And he looked up, and saw the rich men who were casting their gifts into the treasury.' As we see from the chiasmus of the passage Luke connects the behaviour of the Scribes towards widows' possessio...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    AND HE LOOKED UP (Αναβλεψας δε). He had taken his seat, after the debate was over and the Sanhedrin had slunk away in sheer defeat, "over against the treasury" (Mark 12:41). The word for "treasury...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Luke 21:1. And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites. And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The widow's mite. Discourse on the course of the age and return of the Lord. CHARACTERS: Jesus, widow, disciples. CONCLUSION: As the time draws near when the Kingdom of God shall be fully e...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Luke 21:5. _Some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts._ This conversation occurred as they were going out of the temple. Mark 13:1. On mount Olivet the Lord delivered t...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    SAW RICH MEN DROPPING THEIR GIFTS. For notes on the widow's copper coins, see Mark 12:41-44....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _This poor Widow hath cast in more than they all_ THE WIDOW’S MITES Our Lord wished to see “how the multitude cast money into the collection-chest”--not only _how much_--anybody could have discovered...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 21:1 OFFERING BOX. One of the 13 collection chests in the temple. ⇐...

  • The Gospels Compared

    A POOR WIDOW GIVES ALL SHE HAS MARK 12:41-44; LUKE 21:1-4; MARK 12:41 And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in m...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    CHAPTER 21 VER. 18. _But there shall not an hair of your head perish._ "Because," says S. Gregory, "what was said about death was hard, comfort is added at once, from the joy of the resurrection, when...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 21:1. LOOKED UP.—From the parallel passage in Mark 12:41 we learn that our Lord had taken his seat in the court of the women, where were the chests for containing gifts and offer...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION LUKE 21:1 _The_ _widow_'_s mite. _We find this little sketch only here and in St. Mark (Mark 12:41). The Master was sitting—resting, probably, after the effort of the great denunciation of...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    And he looked up, and he saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury. And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites (Luke 21:1-2). A mite was one-sixteenth of a penny. I...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Kings 14:26; 2 Chronicles 36:18; 2 Kings 24:13; John 8:20; Joshu

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Treasury. See on Mark 12:41. Rich. Standing last and emphatically in the sentence, "Saw them that were casting, etc. - rich men." Not the rich only were casting in. Compare Mark 12:41....

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    He looked up — From those on whom his eyes were fixed before. Mark 12:41....

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    At the door of the temple, through which all the people passed in and out, who came up three times. year at the solemn feasts, to worship Almighty God in his own house, there was. chest set, (like the...

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