Mark 12:41

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Then Jesus sat down over near the [Temple] treasury and watched how the crowd was throwing money into the treasury [Note: This “treasury” was a large open-mouthed container used for receiving offerings for meeting expenses of Temple upkeep]. Many rich people were throwing in lots of money.

Cross References

Matthew 27:6

The leading priests took the silver coins and said, “It is not permissible by the Law of Moses to put this money in the Temple treasury, since it is the price [paid] for [taking] a life.

Mark 12:42

A poor widow came and threw in two small copper coins [Note: These two coins each amounted to about ten minutes’ worth of a farm laborer’s pay, or about $1.50 in 2005]. The total she gave was equivalent to a larger coin [i.e., worth twice as much].

John 8:20

Jesus spoke these words in the treasury [area of the Temple]. And no one arrested Him because His time had not yet come [i.e., to be turned over to the authorities and killed].