Luke 21:1

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' houses" - which, according both to Mark and Luke, our Lord had just uttered-and the case of this poor widow, of highest account in the eye of Jesus. The incident occurred, as appears, on that day of profuse teaching-the third day (or the Tuesday) of His last week. In Mark's account of it we read that "Jesus sat," or 'sat down' [ kathisas (G2523)] "over against the treasury" (Mark 12:41) - probably to rest; because he had continued long teaching on foot in the temple-court (Mark 11:27). This explains the opening words...

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 we have in our hearts to give for the relief of his members, or for his service. Blessed Lord! the poorest of thy servants have two mites, they have a soul and a body; persuade and enable us to offer both unto thee; how happy shall we be in thine accepting of them!...

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. _Earthquakes and fearful sights_, 11. _Persecutions against the godly_, 12-19. _Directions how to escape_, 20-22. _The tribulation of those times_, 23-28. _The parable of the fig tree, illustrative of the time when they_ _may expect these calamities_, 29-33. Th

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....

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 the scribes and Pharisees—in the covered colonnade of that part of the temple which was open to the Jewish women. Here was the treasury, with its thirteen boxes in the wall, for the reception of the alms of the people. These boxes were called _shopheroth, _or trumpets, because they were shaped like trumpets, swelling out beneath, and tapering upward into a narrow mouth, or opening, into which the alms were dropped. Some of these "trumpets" were marked with special inscriptions, denoting the destination of the offerings....

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 Syriac, Arabic, and Persic versions leave out this clause. AND SAW THE RICH MEN CASTING THEIR GIFTS INTO THE TREASURY; Mark 12:41....

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 this poor widow hath cast in more than they all: for all these have of their abundance cast in unto the offerings of God: but like of her penury hath cast in all the living that she had. And as some spake of the temple, how it was adorned with goodly stones and gifts, he said, As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down._ This was literally true of the temple at Jerusalem; and today there remains nothing of it. It is also true of all earthly buildings and of all earthly things. However firm they appear to be, as though they might outlast the centuries themselves, yet the things which a

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. (Luke 21:8) 5. The Destruction of Jerusalem and the World-wide Dispersion of Israel. (Luke 21:20) 6. The Return of the Lord with Power and Great Glory. (Luke 21:25) 7. The Fig Tree and Warnings. ...

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

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 more than all, for all these contributed to the gifts out of their abundance, but she, out of her need, has put in everything she had to live on." In the Court of the Women in the Temple there were thirteen collecting boxes known as the Trumpets. They were shaped like trumpets with the narrow part at the top and the wider part at the foot. Each was assigned to offerings for a different purpose--for the wood that was used to burn the sacrifice, for the incense that was burned on the altar, for the upkeep of the golden vessels, and so on. It was near the Trumpets that Jesus was sitting. After the strenuous debates with the emissaries of the Sanhedrin and the Sadducees he was tired and his head...