Luke 21:1

A Poor Widow’s Offering

1 And he looked up [and] saw the rich putting their gifts into the contribution box,

Luke 21:1 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 21:1

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;
(See Gill on Mark 12:41).

Luke 21:1 In-Context

1 And he looked up [and] saw the rich putting their gifts into the contribution box,

2 and he saw a certain poor widow putting in there two small copper coins.

3 And he said, "Truly I say to you that this poor widow put in more than all [of them].

4 For these all put [gifts] into the offering out of their abundance, but this [woman] out of her poverty put in all the means of subsistence that she had."

5 And [while] some were speaking about the temple, that it was adorned with precious stones and votive offerings, he said,

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the previous participle ("looked up") has been translated as a finite verb