Come, what did you go out to see? A man arrayed in soft robes? Those who are gorgeously dressed and luxurious live in royal palaces.

"A nobleman," he said, "went abroad to obtain royal power for himself and then return.

Now his people hated him and sent envoys after him to say, 'We object to him having royal power over us.'

However he secured the royal power and came home. Then he ordered the servants to be called who had been given the money, that he might find out what business they had done.

But Jesus said to them, "The kings of the Gentiles rule over them, and their authorities take the name of 'Benefactor':

so, even as my Father has assigned me royal power,

I assign you the right of eating and drinking at my table in my Realm and of sitting on thrones to rule the twelve tribes of Israel.