[Luke 21] Jesus at the Treasury: In this chapter, we find Jesus closely observing what various individuals give into the treasury of the temple. Would you tolerate your minister following the usher down the aisle, examining the amounts of each gift given at offering time? That is precisely what Jesus does in this chapter. He goes on to commend an impoverished widow giving into the very institution that was plotting His assassination. Jesus' attitudes toward giving are very different than those which we find in Christian culture today, as we will examine in this chapter.
