Quotes About Money

A feast is prepared for laughter, and wine makes life merry, but money is the answer for everything.

No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.

Then Jesus entered the temple courts and drove out all who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.

Show Me the coin used for the tax.” And they brought Him a denarius.

But the servant who had received the one talent went off, dug a hole in the ground, and hid his masterís money.

This perfume could have been sold at a high price, and the money given to the poor.”

The chief priests picked up the pieces of silver and said, “It is unlawful to put this into the treasury, since it is blood money.”

After conferring together, they used the money to buy the potterís field as a burial place for foreigners.

And after the chief priests had met with the elders and formed a plan, they gave the soldiers a large sum of money

So the guards took the money and did as they were instructed. And this account has been circulated among the Jews to this very day.

When they arrived in Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began to drive out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the seats of those selling doves.

It could have been sold for over three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor.” And they scolded her.

They were delighted to hear this, and they promised to give him money. So Judas began to look for an opportunity to betray Jesus.

No servant can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all of this and were scoffing at Jesus.

When he returned from procuring his kingship, he summoned the servants to whom he had given the money, to find out what each one had earned.

Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, and upon my return I could have collected it with interest?í

“Show Me a denarius. Whose image and inscription are on it?” “Caesarís,” they answered.

They were delighted and agreed to give him money.

In the temple courts He found men selling cattle, sheep, and doves, and money changers seated at their tables.

So He made a whip out of cords and drove all from the temple courts, both sheep and cattle. He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned their tables.

“Why wasnít this perfume sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?”

Judas did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money bag, he used to take from what was put into it.

Since Judas kept the money bag, some thought that Jesus was telling him to buy what was needed for the feast, or to give something to the poor.