Brain Fertilizer

I've been thinking about writing a post on Liberal Democrats emphasis on poverty in the Bible.

I was going to highlight this verse:

"Leave her alone," Jesus replied. "It was intended that she should save this perfume for the day of my burial. You will always have the poor among you, but you will not always have me."

Turns out, the previous verses are even better:

But one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, who was later to betray him, objected, "Why wasn't this perfume sold and the money given to the poor? It was worth a year's wages." He 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 help himself to what was put into it.

Let's look at that last line again:

He 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 help himself to what was put into it.

Many thanks to James Taranto in today's Best of the Web.