"Why wasn't this perfume sold for three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor?"

You yourselves know that I have worked with these hands of mine to provide everything that my companions and I have needed.

I have shown you in all things that by working hard in this way we must help the weak, remembering the words that the Lord Jesus himself said, 'There is more happiness in giving than in receiving.' "

All they asked was that we should remember the needy in their group, which is the very thing I have been eager to do.

If you used to rob, you must stop robbing and start working, in order to earn an honest living for yourself and to be able to help the poor.