Mark 12:41

God's Word

As Jesus sat facing the temple offering box, he watched how ⌞much⌟ money people put into it. Many rich people put in large amounts.

Cross References

2 Kings 12:9

Then the priest Jehoiada took a box, drilled a hole in its lid, and put it at the right side of the altar as one comes into the Lord’s temple. The priests who guarded the entrance put the money that was brought to the Lord’s temple in the box.

Matthew 27:6

The chief priests took the money and said, “It’s not right to put it into the temple treasury, because it’s blood money.”

Mark 12:42

A poor widow dropped in two small coins, worth less than a cent.

John 8:20

Jesus spoke these words while he was teaching in the treasury area of the temple courtyard. No one arrested him, because his time had not yet come.