have maintenance, etc.

39:26 or

31;) hence, by a very natural figure, salt is used for food or maintenance in general. I am well informed, says Mr. Parkhurst, that it is a common expression of the natives in the East Indies, 'I eat such a one's salt,' meaning, I am fed by him. Salt was also, as it still is, among eastern nations, a symbol of friendship and hospitality; and hence, to eat a man's salt, is to be bound to him by the ties of friendship.)

and it was

以西結書 33:31
他們來到你這裡如同民來聚會，坐在你面前彷彿是我的民。他們聽你的話卻不去行，因為他們的口多顯愛情，心卻追隨財利。

約翰福音 12:5,6
說：「這香膏為什麼不賣三十兩銀子賙濟窮人呢？」…

約翰福音 19:12-15
從此彼拉多想要釋放耶穌，無奈猶太人喊著說：「你若釋放這個人，就不是愷撒的忠臣。凡以自己為王的，就是背叛愷撒了。」…