And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.
Parallel translations
- WEB He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.
- BSB Then Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,
- NKJV And He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury,
- NASB Now He looked up and saw the wealthy putting their gifts into the temple treasury.
- NLT While Jesus was in the Temple, he watched the rich people dropping their gifts in the collection box.
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Jesus observes wealthy people placing their offerings into the temple treasury.
Overview
In the Court of the Women stood receptacles for freewill gifts to support temple worship. Jesus watches not the amount given but the heart behind the giving. This sets the scene for His striking lesson about the poor widow's offering.
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- Mark 12:41–44And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
- John 8:20These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple: and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come.
- 2 Chr 36:18And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
- Matt 27:6And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful for to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood.
- Neh 13:13And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.
- Josh 6:19But 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.
- 2 Kgs 24:13And 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.
- Mark 7:11–13But 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.
- Josh 6:24And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
- 1 Kgs 14:26And 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.
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