"There were once to men," said Jesus, "in debt to one money-lender. One owed him fifty pounds; the other five.

And he said to them. "Take nothing for your journey, neither staff, nor bag, nor bread, nor money, and do not have two tunics.

"Not many days after that the younger son gathered everything together and took his journey into a distant country; and there he wasted his money on living unsavingly.

"So he called to him each of his master's debtors and said to the first, 'How much money do you owe my master?'

Now the Pharisees who loved money listened to all this and they jeered at him.

Jesus looked at him and said: "How hard it is for those who have money to enter into the kingdom of God!

"And upon his return after he had secured the royal power, he ordered the slaves to whom he had given the money to be called in, so that he might know what they had gained by trading.

"'Then why did you not put my money into the bank, so that at my coming I might I might have gotten it back with interest?'

They were delighted, and agreed to give him money.