to one he gave twelve hundred pounds, to another five hundred, and to another two hundred and fifty; each got according to his capacity. Then the man went abroad.

"There was a moneylender who had two debtors; one owed him fifty pounds, the other five.

(There were about five thousand men of them.) He said to his disciples, "Make them lie down in rows of about fifty."

The first came up saying, 'Your five pounds has made other fifty, sir.'

Then he said to the bystanders, 'Take the five pounds from him and give it to the man with fifty.'