Ye are the salt of the earth; but if the salt become insipid, how shall it recover its savour? it is no longer fit for any thing, but to be cast out and trod under foot.

James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas, and Matthew the publican, James the son of Alpheus, and Labbeus, whose sirname was Thaddeus, Simon the zelot,

are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? yet not one of them shall lose its life independently of your father,

but being insolvent, his lord gave orders that he, with his wife, and children, and all that he had, should be sold for payment.

Then Jesus entered into the temple of God, drove out all those that sold and bought in the temple, overthrew the tables of the money-changers, and the stalls of those that sold doves,

for this could have been sold for a great price, which might have been given to the poor.