The high priests picked up the money and said, "It is not legal to put it into the consecrated treasury, for it is blood money."

No one can be a slave to two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot be slaves of God and money.

Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go and sell everything you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have riches in heaven; then come back here and follow me."

Do not accept gold or silver or even copper money for your purse,

But the man who had received the one thousand went off and dug a hole in the ground and buried his master's money.

So I was afraid, and went off and buried your thousand dollars in the ground. Here is your money.'

So you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, so that when I came back I could have collected my principal with interest.

Surely it could have been sold for a large sum and the money given to the poor."

Then he tossed the money into the temple and left, and went off and hanged himself.

Have I not the right to do what I please with my own money? Or, is your eye causing you to be covetous, because I am generous?

And Jesus went into the temple and drove out all the buyers and sellers, and turned the money-changers' tables and the dove-dealers' seats upside down,

So they met and held a consultation with the elders, and bribed the soldiers with a large sum of money,

So they took the money and did as they were told. And this story has been told among the Jews down to the present time.