[freeangel]

"the money He had was given to Him by His followers which He in turn gave to the poor"

Wow, I don't remember reading that. Perhaps you could tell me where to find it.

[SauronOfMordor]

"the money He had was given to Him by His followers which He in turn gave to the poor" Wow, I don't remember reading that. Perhaps you could tell me where to find it.

He didn't always encourage it:

Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor? This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.

Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this. For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

(John 12:3-8)

Beware of thieves who demand that others spend money on the poor.