'Ye are the salt of the land, but if the salt may lose savour, in what shall it be salted? for nothing is it good henceforth, except to be cast without, and to be trodden down by men.

'Are not two sparrows sold for an assar? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father;

who having found one pearl of great price, having gone away, hath sold all, as much as he had, and bought it.

and he having nothing to pay, his lord did command him to be sold, and his wife, and the children, and all, whatever he had, and payment to be made.

for this ointment could have been sold for much, and given to the poor.'