But some fell on good ground, and sprang up and yielded fruit an hundred-fold. And as He said these things He cried out, "He that hath ears to hear, let him hear."

'Four hundred and forty gallons of oil,' answered the man. 'Here is your agreement,' he said; 'sit down at once and make it two hundred and twenty.'

Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' He answered, 'Fifteen hundred bushels of wheat.' He said to him, 'Here is your agreement; write twelve hundred.'

"There were two debtors [who owed] a certain creditor. One owed five hundred denarii and the other fifty.

"What man of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the grassland and go after the one that was lost until he finds it?

The first came up, and said 'Sir, your ten pounds have made a hundred.'

Take away from him the ten pounds,' he said to those standing by, 'and give them to the one who has the hundred.'

'But, Sir,' they interposed, 'he has a hundred pounds already!'

And lo! two of them were going the same day to a village called Emmaus, distant a hundred and sixty furlongs from Jerusalem.

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