But require the same quota of bricks from them as they were making before; do not reduce it. For they are slackers—that is why they are crying out, ‘Let us go and sacrifice to our God.’

asking, “When will the New Moon be over
so we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath,
so we may market wheat?
We can reduce the measure
while increasing the price
and cheat with dishonest scales.

“I wish one of you would shut the temple doors, so you would no longer kindle a useless fire on My altar! I am not pleased with you,” says the Lord of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.

When the disciples saw it, they were indignant. “Why this waste?” they asked.

But some were expressing indignation to one another: “Why has this fragrant oil been wasted?

“Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye, but don’t notice the log in your own eye?

Three hundred

Philip answered, “Two hundred denarii worth of bread wouldn’t be enough for each of them to have a little.”

After agreeing with the workers on one denarius for the day, he sent them into his vineyard.

And given

“This might have been sold for a great deal and given to the poor.”

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Make money-bags for yourselves that won’t grow old, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

When Jesus heard this, He told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell all that you have and distribute it to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”

General references

“This might have been sold for a great deal and given to the poor.”