article_snippet.sent: (CNN)"Sell all that you own and distribute the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven
article_snippet.sent: ; then come, follow me," Jesus' tells the rich man in one of the rich man best-known parables.
article_snippet.sent: It was a mantra the rich man invoked repeatedly: the poor were blessed, and It was easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it was for the well-to-do to enter paradise.  
article_snippet.sent: Clearly, money was a concern, and not just as an impediment to salvation.
article_snippet.sent: Though 300 denarii was the annual wage of a laborer, Jesus' told Judas Iscariot to leave A woman named Mary alone, and foreshadowing Judas Iscariot fate, said the anointing would be useful for Judas Iscariot burial, and besides, "you always have the poor with you" -- but Jesus' would not always be there.
article_snippet.sent: What that passage makes clear is that the Jesus' community had a common purse because they needed money to survive.
article_snippet.sent: I venture to guess that begging and hospitality will have sufficed to meet the basic needs of Jesus' and the companions with whom Jesus' traveled," Garroway said.
article_snippet.sent: Garroway said that it was possible, even likely, that Jesus' and Jesus' followers received donations from supporters, and possibly substantial ones from some of the rich people who were drawn to the ministry despite -- or perhaps because of -- Jesus' preaching on the perils of wealth.
article_snippet.sent: Along with these women, men like Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, both men of stature and wealth, may have chipped in to help fund the ministry.
article_snippet.sent: the Gospels reveal that both men like Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, both men of stature and wealth were rich, and supported Jesus' -- indeed, the Gospels was Joseph who removed Jesus' from the cross on Good Friday, anointing Jesus' body with the help of Nicodemus, and placing Jesus' in the tomb that Joseph had reserved for Joseph.
article_snippet.sent: After the resurrection on that first Easter Sunday, the movement Jesus' started grew exponentially, and the church's relationship to money grew more complicated as the needs became greater.
highlights_snippet.sent: Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus, both men of stature and wealth, chipped in to help fund Jesus' ministry.