Or what king, when he is setting out to fight another king, does not first sit down and consider if with ten thousand men he is able to meet one who is coming against him with twenty thousand?

Now the first one came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars, sir, has made two hundred more.'

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

But another one came in and said, 'Here is your twenty dollars, sir, which I kept laid away in a handkerchief.

So he called ten of his servants, and gave them ten minas [one apiece, each equal to about a hundred days’ wages] and said to them, ‘Do business [with this] until I return.’

'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.'

"Show me a twenty-cent coin. Whose picture and title does it bear?" They answered, "Caesar's."

So he said to the bystanders, 'Take the twenty dollars away from him and give it to the man who has the two hundred.'