Why was this ointment not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?

Yes, you yourselves know that these hands have served for my necessities, and for those who were with me.

I have shown you in everything, by laboring like this, that we need to support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

They desired only that we should remember the poor, the very thing which I also was eager to do.

Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.