Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
And he looked up (Anableyav de). He had taken his seat, after the debate was over and the Sanhedrin had slunk away in sheer defeat, "over against the treasury" (Mark 12:41). The word for "treasury" (gazofulakion) is a compound of gaza (Persian word for royal treasury) and fulakh guard or protection. It is common in the LXX, but in the N.T. only here and Mark 12:41, Mark 12:43; John 8:20. Jesus was watching (Mark 12:41) the rich put in their gifts as a slight diversion from the intense strain of the hours before.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 21:1:
Luke 5:17
John 8:20
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