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

"A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other fifty.

The man replied, 'A hundred measures of olive oil.' The manager said to him, 'Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.'

Then the Judeans replied, "You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?"

So Simon Peter went aboard and pulled the net to shore. It was full of large fish, one hundred fifty-three, but although there were so many, the net was not torn.

All this took about four hundred fifty years. After this he gave them judges until the time of Samuel the prophet.

Large numbers of those who had practiced magic collected their books and burned them up in the presence of everyone. When the value of the books was added up, it was found to total fifty thousand silver coins.

The one who had received the five talents came and brought five more, saying, 'Sir, you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.'