"Why was this fragrant oil not sold for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?"

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

"I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must 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 him who has need.