The first came up saying, 'Your five pounds has made other fifty, sir.'

Then he said to the bystanders, 'Take the five pounds from him and give it to the man with fifty.'

"There was a moneylender who had two debtors; one owed him fifty pounds, the other five.

(There were about five thousand men of them.) He said to his disciples, "Make them lie down in rows of about fifty."

'A hundred barrels of oil,' he said. The factor told him, 'Here is your bill; sit down at once and enter fifty barrels.'

'Sir,' they said, 'he has fifty already!'