Luke 19:11-27

Revised Geneva Translation

¹¹ And while they heard these things, He continued and spoke a parable (because He was near Jerusalem, and also because they thought that the Kingdom of God would shortly appear).

¹² Therefore, He said, “A certain nobleman went into a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself and then to return.

¹³ “And he called his ten servants, and gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business until I come.’

¹⁴ “Now, his citizens hated him, and sent ambassadors after him, saying, ‘We will not have this man reign over us!’

¹⁵ “And it happened that when he had returned (and had received his kingdom) he commanded the servants to whom he had given his money be called to him, so that he might know what each had gained.

¹⁶ “Then the first came, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has increased to ten minas.’

¹⁷ “And he said to him, ‘Well, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little thing, take authority over ten cities!’

¹⁸ “And the second came, saying, ‘Lord, your mina has increased to five minas.’

¹⁹ “And to this one he said, ‘And you rule over five cities!’

²⁰ “So the other came, and said, ‘Lord, behold your mina, which I have put away in a handkerchief.

²¹ ‘For I feared you because you are an exacting man. You take up what you did not lay down and reap what you did not sow.’

²² “Then he said to him, ‘From your own mouth will I judge you, O evil servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow.

²³ ‘Why, then, did you not give my money to the bank, so that I might have required it with interest when I came?’

²⁴ “And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina from him and give it to him who has ten minas!’

²⁵ “And they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas.’

²⁶ ‘For I say to you that to all those who have, it shall be given. And from the one who has not, even that he has shall be taken from him.

²⁷ ‘Moreover, bring my enemies here who do not wish to have me reign over them and kill them before me!’”