"You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its strength, what can make it salt again? It is good for nothing but to be thrown away and trodden under foot.

Simon the zealot, and Judas Iscariot, who afterward betrayed Him.

"The kingdom of heaven is like a pot of gold which was buried in a field, which a man found and buried again; and for joy over it he went and sold all he had and bought that field.

One day he found a very costly pearl, and he went and sold all he had and bought it.

And because he could not pay it, his master ordered him to be sold, yea, even his wife and children and all he had, and payment to be made.

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