"You are the salt of the earth. But if salt becomes tasteless, by what will it be made salty? It is good for nothing any longer except to be thrown outside [and] trampled under foot by people.

Simon the Zealot, and Judas Iscariot--the one who also betrayed him.

Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? And one of them will not fall to the ground {without the knowledge and consent} of your Father.

And [when he] found one very valuable pearl, he went [and] sold everything that he possessed and purchased it.

And [because] he did not have [enough] to repay [it], the master ordered him to be sold, and his wife and his children and everything that he had, and to be repaid.

For this could have been sold for a large sum and given to the poor!"