Luke 19:11-27 - The Parable Of The Ten Minas

¹¹ As they were listening to these things, He told them another story, because He was near Jerusalem and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once.

¹² So He said: "Once upon a time a man of noble birth went off to a distant country to get for himself a kingdom and then return. ¹³ He called in ten of his slaves and gave them twenty dollars apiece and told them to do business with his money while he was gone.

¹⁴ But his citizens continued to hate him, and sent a delegation after him to say, 'We do not want this man to become king over us.'

¹⁵ Then after he had gotten the appointment as king, he returned and ordered those slaves to whom he had given his money to be called in, that he might find out what business they had done. ¹⁶ Now the first one came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars, sir, has made two hundred more.'

¹⁷ So he said to him, 'Well done, my good slave! Because you have proven dependable in a very small business, be governor of ten cities!'

¹⁸ The second one came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars, sir, has made a hundred!'

¹⁹ So he said to him too, 'Be governor of five cities?

²⁰ But another one came in and said, 'Here is your twenty dollars, sir, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief. ²¹ For I lived in constant dread of you, because you are a stern man, you pick up what you did not put down, you reap what you did not sow.'

²² He said to him, 'On the ground of what you say I will sentence you, you wicked slave! You knew that I was a stern man, that I picked up what I did not put down, and reaped what I did not sow. ²³ So why did you not put my money into the bank? In that case, when I came back I could have gotten interest on my principal.' ²⁴ So he said to the bystanders, 'Take the twenty dollars away from him and give it to the man who has the two hundred.'

²⁵ And they said, 'Sir, he has two hundred already.'

²⁶ 'I tell you, the man who gets will have more given to him, but the man who does not get will have even what he has taken away from him! ²⁷ But bring those enemies of mine here who did not want me to become king over them and slay them in my presence!'"