Luke 19:11-27 - The Parable Of The Ten Minas
11 As the people were listening to this, Jesus went on to tell them a parable. He did so because he was near Jerusalem, and because they thought that the Kingdom of God was going to be proclaimed at once.
12 He said: "A nobleman once went to a distant country to receive his appointment to a Kingdom and then return. 13 He called ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds each, and told them to trade with them during his absence.
14 But his subjects hated him and sent envoys after him to say 'We will not have this man as our King.'
15 On his return, after having been appointed King, he directed that the servants to whom he had given his money should be summoned, so that he might learn what amount of trade they had done. 16 The first came up, and said 'Sir, your ten pounds have made a hundred.'
17 'Well done, good servant!' exclaimed the master. 'As you have proved trustworthy in a very small matter, I appoint you governor over ten towns.'
18 When the second came, he said 'Your ten pounds, Sir, have produced fifty.'
19 So the master said to him 'And you I appoint over five towns.'
20 Another servant also came and said 'Sir, here are your ten pounds; I have kept them put away in a handkerchief. 21 For I was afraid of you, because you are a stern man. You take what you have not planted, and reap what you have not sown.'
22 The master answered 'Out of your own mouth I judge you, you worthless servant. You knew that I am a stern man, that I take what I have not planted, and reap what I have not sown? 23 Then why did not you put my money into a bank? And I, on my return, could have claimed it with interest. 24 Take away from him the ten pounds,' he said to those standing by, 'and give them to the one who has the hundred.'
25 'But, Sir,' they interposed, 'he has a hundred pounds already!'
26 'I tell you,' he answered, 'that, to him who has, more will be given, but, from him who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away. 27 But as for my enemies, these men who would not have me as their King, bring them here and put them to death in my presence.'"