"Are not two sparrows sold for a half-penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your father.

"And since he was unable to pay, his master ordered him to be sold, and his wife and children and all that he had, toward the payment of the debt.

Then Jesus entered into the Temple courts, and cast out all who were buying and selling there, and overturned the tables of the money-changers, and the seats of those who sold pigeons.

"Why is this waste? This perfume could have been sold for a good sum, and the money given to the poor."