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.

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

Then said the Jews to him, "You are not fifty years old, and Abraham has seen you?"

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.

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

So Peter went aboard and hauled the net ashore, full of large fish, a hundred and fifty three of them; but for all their number the net was not torn.

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.'

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

so they arranged themselves in groups of a hundred and of fifty;

and after destroying seven nations in the land of Canaan he gave them their land as an inheritance for about four hundred and fifty years.

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