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

(For there were about five thousand men.) So he said to his disciples, "Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each."

to one he gave twelve hundred pounds, to another five hundred, and to another two hundred and fifty; each got according to his capacity. Then the man went abroad.

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.'

I tell you, you will not be released from there until you have paid the last coin [Note: This coin amounted to about five minutes of a farm laborer's pay, or about fifty cents in 1994]."

and I heard what seemed to be a voice from the midst of the four living creatures say: "Wheat, fifty cents a quart, barley, fifty cents for three quarts! But you must not injure the oil and wine."

And he said, 'A hundred measures of olive oil.' So he said to him, 'Take your promissory note and sit down quickly [and] write fifty.'

So the Jews said to him, "{You are} not yet fifty years [old], and have you seen Abraham?"

[This took] about four hundred and fifty years. And after these [things], he gave [them] judges until Samuel the prophet.

and many of those who practiced magic brought together [their] books [and] burned [them] up in the sight of everyone. And they counted up their value and found [it was] {fifty thousand silver coins}.

So Simon Peter got into [the boat] and hauled the net to the land, full of large fish--one hundred fifty-three--and [although there] were so many, the net was not torn.

And having destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land to them by lot, about four hundred and fifty years.

and they sat down in an oblong square, an hundred by fifty.

And thence, the brothers hearing of us came out to meet us even to the Forum of Appius, and the Three Taverns [fifty-one miles]; and when Paul saw them, thanking God he took courage.

But the servant who had got the two hundred and fifty pounds went off and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master's money.

Then the servant who had got the two hundred and fifty pounds came forward. He said, 'I knew you were a hard man, sir, reaping where you never sowed and gathering where you never winnowed.

So I was afraid; I went and hid your two hundred and fifty pounds in the earth. There's your money!'

Take therefore the two hundred and fifty pounds away from him, give it to the servant who had the twelve hundred.

And you, the steward said to the next, 'how much do you owe?' 'Seventy quarters of wheat,' he replied. 'Here is your agreement,' the steward said; 'make it fifty-six.'

When the second came, he said 'Your ten pounds, Sir, have produced fifty.'

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

Others fell upon good ground, and brought forth fruit, some a hundred, some fifty. some thirty.

"But on his way out, that slave met a fellow slave who owed him fifty dollars. Seizing him by the throat, and nearly choking him, he exclaimed, "'Pay me what you owe me!'

In answer he said to them, "You yourselves are to give them food." "Are we to go and buy fifty dollars worth of bread," they said, "and give them food?"

That perfume could have been sold for more than one hundred and fifty dollars, and given to the poor."

"Why was not this perfume sold for fifty dollars, and the proceeds given to the poor?"

And giant hailstones, as heavy as a talent, fell from the sky on the people; and people reviled and spoke abusively of God for the plague of the hail, because the plague was so very great.

And the one who had received the five talents came up [and] brought five more talents, saying, 'Master, you handed over to me five talents. See, I have gained five more talents!'