Luke 21:1
New International Version
As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury.

New Living Translation
While Jesus was in the Temple, he watched the rich people dropping their gifts in the collection box.

English Standard Version
Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box,

Berean Standard Bible
Then Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,

Berean Literal Bible
And having looked up, He saw the rich casting their gifts into the treasury,

King James Bible
And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.

New King James Version
And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,

New American Standard Bible
Now He looked up and saw the wealthy putting their gifts into the temple treasury.

NASB 1995
And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury.

NASB 1977
And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury.

Legacy Standard Bible
And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury.

Amplified Bible
Looking up, He saw the rich people putting their gifts into the treasury.

Christian Standard Bible
He looked up and saw the rich dropping their offerings into the temple treasury.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
He looked up and saw the rich dropping their offerings into the temple treasury.

American Standard Version
And he looked up, and saw the rich men that were casting their gifts into the treasury.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But Yeshua gazed at the rich who were casting in their offerings to the treasury.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus looked up and saw some rich people tossing their gifts into the offering box.

Douay-Rheims Bible
AND looking on, he saw the rich men cast their gifts into the treasury.

English Revised Version
And he looked up, and saw the rich men that were casting their gifts into the treasury.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Looking up, Jesus saw people, especially the rich, dropping their gifts into the temple offering box.

Good News Translation
Jesus looked around and saw rich people dropping their gifts in the Temple treasury,

International Standard Version
Now Jesus looked up and saw rich people dropping their gifts into the offering box.

Literal Standard Version
And having looked up, He saw those who cast their gifts into the treasury—rich men,

Majority Standard Bible
Then Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,

New American Bible
When he looked up he saw some wealthy people putting their offerings into the treasury

NET Bible
Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box.

New Revised Standard Version
He looked up and saw rich people putting their gifts into the treasury;

New Heart English Bible
He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he looked up, and saw rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.

Weymouth New Testament
Looking up He saw the people throwing their gifts into the Treasury--the rich people.

World English Bible
He looked up and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.

Young's Literal Translation
And having looked up, he saw those who did cast their gifts to the treasury -- rich men,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
The Poor Widow's Offering
1Then Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury, 2and He saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins.…

Cross References
2 Kings 12:9
Then Jehoiada the priest took a chest, bored a hole in its lid, and set it beside the altar on the right side as one enters the house of the LORD. There the priests who guarded the threshold put all the money brought into the house of the LORD.

Mark 12:41
As Jesus was sitting opposite the treasury, He watched the crowd putting money into it. And many rich people put in large amounts.

Luke 20:47
They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation."

John 8:20
He spoke these words while teaching in the temple courts, near the treasury. Yet no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.


Treasury of Scripture

And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.

and saw.

Mark 7:11-13
But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free

Mark 12:41-44
And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much…

the treasury.

Joshua 6:19,24
But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD…

1 Kings 14:26
And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

2 Kings 24:13
And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the LORD, as the LORD had said.

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Luke 21
1. Jesus commends the poor widow.
5. He foretells the destruction of the temple, and of the city Jerusalem;
25. the signs also which shall be before the last day.
34. He exhorts them to be watchful.














XXI.

(1-4) And saw the rich men casting their gifts.--See Notes on Mark 12:41-44. This may, perhaps, be thought of as one of the incidents which St. Luke derived from verbal communication with his brother-evangelist. (See Introduction.)

Verses 1-4. - The widow's mite. We find this little sketch only here and in St. Mark (Mark 12:41-44). 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. Verse 1. - And he looked up, and saw the rich men outing their gifts into the treasury. It is not improbable that a special stream of almsgivers were just then passing through the temple court, many being specially impressed by the solemn words they had just been listening to.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
Then
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

[Jesus] looked up
Ἀναβλέψας (Anablepsas)
Verb - Aorist Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Singular
Strong's 308: To look up, recover my sight. From ana and blepo; to look up; by implication, to recover sight.

[and] saw
εἶδεν (eiden)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Singular
Strong's 3708: Properly, to stare at, i.e. to discern clearly; by extension, to attend to; by Hebraism, to experience; passively, to appear.

the
τοὺς (tous)
Article - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

rich
πλουσίους (plousious)
Adjective - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 4145: Rich, abounding in, wealthy; subst: a rich man. From ploutos; wealthy; figuratively, abounding with.

putting
βάλλοντας (ballontas)
Verb - Present Participle Active - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 906: (a) I cast, throw, rush, (b) often, in the weaker sense: I place, put, drop. A primary verb; to throw.

their
αὐτῶν (autōn)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Genitive Masculine 3rd Person Plural
Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons.

gifts
δῶρα (dōra)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Plural
Strong's 1435: A gift, present. A present; specially, a sacrifice.

into
εἰς (eis)
Preposition
Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases.

the
τὸ (to)
Article - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

treasury,
γαζοφυλάκιον (gazophylakion)
Noun - Accusative Neuter Singular
Strong's 1049: A treasury. From gaza and phulake; a treasure-house, i.e. A court in the temple for the collection-boxes.


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