These words spake Jesus in the treasury,— The treasury was that part of the women's court, where the chests were placed for receiving the offerings of those who came to worship, (see Mark 12:41.) and consequently was a place of great concourse, being resorted unto even by the priests and rulers. Wherefore, the evangelist's remark, that the preceding conversation happened in the treasury, gives us a great idea of our Lord's intrepidity: though he was in the midst of his enemies, he spake boldly, not fearing them in the least. It seems, his divine providence so over-ruled the spirits of these wicked men, that none of them attempted to seize him, because the time of his sufferings was not yet come.

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