What had that disciple of the Prophet said?
Wealth endangered life, and poverty protected it.
If he had set his followers free, giving them what they needed, and wandered about in simple fashion on his own legs, the robber's knife would not now be pointed at his breast.

In unrestrained rage he uttered a brutal curse: "Take whatever you can find, and do not mock me, you infamous beast of the desert!" "Calmly, calmly, my dear sir," said the chief, while dusky men rolled up carpets, clothes, arms, jewels, and golden goblets, and threw them into big sacks.

"See, we are helping you to pack up." "Take the rubbish away," shouted Simeon, "and leave me in peace." The chief, Barabbas, grinned.

"I fancy, my friend, that you and I know each other too well for me to let you go back to Jerusalem.

You would then have too great a desire to have me with you.