But the number of bricks that they made in the past you shall impose on them, you shall by no means reduce it, for they are idle. Therefore they cry, 'Let us go and offer sacrifice to our God.'

saying, "When will the new moon be over, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may offer wheat for sale, that we may make the ephah small and the shekel great and deal deceitfully with false balances,

Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will not accept an offering from your hand.

And when the disciples saw it, they were indignant, saying, "Why this waste?

There were some who said to themselves indignantly, "Why was the ointment wasted like that?

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye?

Three hundred

Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to get a little."

After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

And given

For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor."

Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."

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For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor."