¹⁸ “The next servant reported, ‘Master, I invested your money and made five times the original amount.’

¹² Whatever you give is acceptable if you give it eagerly. And give according to what you have, not what you don’t have.

²⁰ And the seed that fell on good soil represents those who hear and accept God’s word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted!”

²³ The seed that fell on good soil represents those who truly hear and understand God’s word and produce a harvest of thirty, sixty, or even a hundred times as much as had been planted!”