But you're to impose the previous quota of bricks that they're making. You're not to reduce it! It is because they're lazy that they're crying out, "Let's go offer sacrifices to our God.'

and who are saying, "When will the New Moon fade so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath conclude so we may market winnowed wheat? shortchanging the measure, raising the price, falsifying the scales by treachery,

"Oh, that one of you would shut the Temple doors and not light useless fires on the altar! I'm not pleased with you," says the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, "and I'll accept no offerings from you.

But when the disciples saw this, they became irritated and said, "Why this waste?

Irritated, some who were there asked one another, "Why was the perfume wasted like this?

"Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?

Three hundred

Philip answered him, "Two hundred denarii worth of bread isn't enough for each of them to have a little."

After agreeing to pay the workers one denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

And given

Surely this perfume could've been sold for a high price and the money given to the destitute."

"Sell your possessions, and give the money to the poor. Make yourselves wallets that don't wear out a dependable treasure in heaven, where no thief can get close and no moth can destroy anything.

When Jesus heard this, he told him, "You still need to do one thing. Sell everything you have and give the money to the destitute, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come back and follow me."

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Surely this perfume could've been sold for a high price and the money given to the destitute."