And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.
Ver. 41. And beheld] He still sits and seeth the condition, gift, and mind of every almsgiver; and weighs all, not by the worth of the gift, but by the will of the giver. Lycurgus enjoined the Lacedaemonians to offer small sacrifices. For God, said he, respects more the internal devotion than the external oblation.
How the people cast money] χαλκον, brass; the worst was thought good enough for God and his poor. Something men will do, but as little as they can.