Thematic Bible: Parsimony
Thematic Bible
Parsimony » General references to
"Why was this perfume not sold for sixty dollars, and the money given to the poor?"
Verse Concepts
a woman came up to him with an alabaster flask of very expensive perfume and poured it upon his head, while he was at table. When his disciples saw it, they said indignantly, "What was the use of wasting it like that?
Parsimony » In withholding offerings
But a man named Ananias, who, with his wife Sapphira, had sold a piece of property, with his wife's connivance appropriated some of the price received, and brought only a part of it to put at the disposal of the apostles.