"The Kingdom of Heaven is like a hoard of money, buried in a field, which a man found, and buried again. And he was overjoyed, and went and sold everything he had and bought the field.

He found one costly pearl, and went and sold everything he had, and bought it.

And as he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all he had, in payment of the debt.

It might have been sold for a large sum, and the money given to the poor."