Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown · 1871
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871). CCEL expanded electronic edition states it is in the public domain.
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Lu 21:1-4.
THE WIDOW'S TWO MITES.
1. looked up--He had "sat down over against the treasury"
(Mr 12:41),
probably to rest, for He had continued long standing as he taught in the temple court
(Mr 11:27),
and "looking up He saw"--as in Zaccheus' case, not quite casually.
the rich, &c.--"the people," says
Mr 12:41
"cast money into the treasury, and many rich east in much"; that is, into chests deposited in one of the courts of the temple to receive the offerings of the people towards its maintenance
(2Ki 12:9; Joh 8:20).