was.

Exodus 5:8, 17
But require of them the same quota of bricks as before; do not reduce it. For they are lazy; that is why they are crying out, 'Let us go and sacrifice to our God.' . . .

Amos 8:5
asking, "When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.

Malachi 1:10-13
"Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you, " says the LORD of Hosts, "and I will accept no offering from your hands." . . .

Matthew 26:8
When the disciples saw this, they were indignant and asked, "Why this waste?

Mark 14:4
But some of those present expressed their indignation to one another: "Why this waste of perfume?

Luke 6:41
Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?

three hundred.

John 6:7
Philip answered, "Two hundred denarii would not buy enough bread for each of them to have a small piece."

Matthew 20:2
He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

Mark 14:5
It could have been sold for over three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor." And they scolded her.

and given.

Matthew 26:9
This perfume could have been sold at a high price, and the money given to the poor."

Luke 12:33
Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.

Luke 18:22
On hearing this, Jesus told him, "You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me."