But some fell on good soil, and bore a crop, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

"But the seed sown in good soil is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit, and makes now an hundredfold, now sixty, now thirty."

"The man who had received the five talents came, bringing five more, and said: "'Master, five talents you entrusted to me; see, I have gained five more.'

"Do you not remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many large basketfuls you took up?

And five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

"At once the man who had received the five talents went out and traded with them, and made five talents more.