"Poor people ate their donkey. Only the wealthy used it as transportation."

“(C. Thomas) Anderson says Jesus couldn’t have been poor because he received lucrative gifts — gold, frankincense and myrrh — at birth. Jesus had to be wealthy because the Roman soldiers who crucified him gambled for his expensive undergarments. Even Jesus’ parents, Mary and Joseph, lived and traveled in style, he says.”

-CNN: “Passions over ‘prosperity gospel’: Was Jesus wealthy?”