Mark:12:41

---

Seeker Overlay ON

rwp @Mark:12:41 @{Sat down over against the treasury } (\kathisas katenanti tou gazophulakiou \). The storm is over . The Pharisees , Sadducees , Herodians , scribes , have all slunk away in terror ere the closing words . Mark draws this immortal picture of the weary Christ sitting by the treasury (compound word in the LXX from \gaza \, Persian word for treasure , and \phulak ˆ\, guard , so safe for gifts to be deposited ). {Beheld } (\ethe “rei \). Imperfect tense . He was watching {how the multitude cast money } (\p “s ho ochlos ballei \) into the treasury . The rich were casting in (\eballon \, imperfect tense ) as he watched .

---