Money Economy and Christ Jesus
One thing very impressive about the Gospels is that money was already widely used in the era of Christ Jesus.
If His work had been done in society where money or coins were not yet common, the story of Christ Jesus must have looked very remote from situations where subsequent readers of the Bible, including present-day ones, lived.
The fact that money was so visibly used in the era of Christ Jesus makes the Gospels so familiar and close to modern readers.
If money had not been used on a daily base in Palestine 2000 years ago, the story of Christ Jesus must have looked so ancient and thus very remote to modern readers.
In other word, one of major conditions concerned with why the Son of the God should come to this human world 2000 years ago is related to use of money by human beings as the way of handling wealth.
So, the following word of Christ Jesus is so meaningful: "Man cannot serve both God and Mammon.
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Gen 6:1 And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
Gen 6:2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose.
Gen 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Gen 6:4 There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.
Gen 6:5 And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Gen 6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Gen 6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.