13 “Therefore be alert, because you don’t know either the day or the hour.[a]

The Parable of the Talents

14 “For it is just like a man about to go on a journey.(A) He called his own servants and entrusted his possessions to them. 15 To one he gave five talents,[b] to another two talents, and to another one talent, depending on each one’s ability. Then he went on a journey.(B) Immediately

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Footnotes

  1. 25:13 Other mss add in which the Son of Man is coming.
  2. 25:15 A talent is worth about 6,000 denarii, or twenty years’ wages for a laborer

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