Do not acquire gold, or silver, or copper for your money belts,

Cleansing the Temple

And Jesus entered the temple area and drove out all those who were selling and buying on the temple grounds, and He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves.

But he who received the one talent went away and dug a hole in the ground, and hid his master’s money.

Then you ought to have put my money in the bank, and on my arrival I would have received my money back with interest.

For this perfume could have been sold for a high price and the money given to the poor.”

The chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, “It is not lawful to put them in the temple treasury, since it is money paid for blood.”

And they conferred together and with the money bought the Potter’s Field as a burial place for strangers.

And when they had assembled with the elders and consulted together, they gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,

And they took the money and did as they had been instructed; and this story was widely spread among the Jews and is to this day.