10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save those who are lost.”

The Parable of the Ten Minas

11 Now while[a] they were listening to these things, he went on and[b] told a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and they thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately. 12 Therefore he said, “A certain nobleman traveled to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 19:11 Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“were listening to”)
  2. Luke 19:11 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“went on”) has been translated as a finite verb