While Jesus was in the Temple, he watched the rich people dropping their gifts in the collection box.
Parallel translations
- WEB He looked up, and saw the rich people who were putting their gifts into the treasury.
- KJV And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting 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.
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Quick answer
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.
Cross-references & the web
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- Mark 12:41–44Jesus sat down opposite the treasury, and saw how the multitude cast money into the treasury. Many who were rich cast in much.
- John 8:20Jesus spoke these words in the treasury, as he taught in the temple. Yet no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
- 2 Chr 36:18All the vessels of God’s house, great and small, and the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes, all these he brought to Babylon.
- Matt 27:6The chief priests took the pieces of silver, and said, “It’s not lawful to put them into the treasury, since it is the price of blood.”
- Neh 13:13I 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 business was to distribute to their brothers.
- Josh 6:19But all the silver, gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh’s treasury.”
- 2 Kgs 24:13He carried out from there all the treasures of Yahweh’s house, 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 Yahweh’s temple, as Yahweh had said.
- Mark 7:11–13But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God”;’
- Josh 6:24They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh’s house.
- 1 Kgs 14:26and he took away the treasures of Yahweh’s house, and the treasures of the king’s house. He even took away all of it, including all the gold shields which Solomon had made.
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