{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(885c), guard, so safe for
gifts to be deposited). {Beheld} (ethe(9372)ei). Imperfect tense.
He was watching {how the multitude cast money} (p(9373) ho ochlos
ballei) into the treasury. The rich were casting in (eballon,
imperfect tense) as he watched.