And all that went on till His disciples had the effrontery to clip and coin under our Lord's very eyes, and even to ask Him to hold the coin while they sharpened their shears.

'O faithless and perverse generation! How long shall I be with you?
How long shall I suffer you?
Have I been so long with you, and yet hast thou not known Me, Philip?
O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken! And beginning at Moses and all the prophets He expounded to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning Himself.' 2.

But those who live in glass houses must take care not to throw stones.

And thus the greatest fool in Israel is safe from you and me.
For, like them, and just as if we had never read one word about them, we bend our hearts and our children's hearts to things seen and temporal, and then, after things seen and temporal have all cast us off, we begin to ask if there is any solace or sweetness for a cast-off heart in things unseen and eternal.

There are great gaps clipt out of our Bibles that not God Himself can ever print or paste in again.