15. “When he returned, having received the kingdom, he summoned these servants, to whom he had entrusted the money, that he might know what everyone gained by trading.
16. “The first came, saying, ‘Master, your pound has made ten pounds more.’
17. “He said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in very little, take authority over ten cities.’
18. “The second came, saying, ‘Master, your pound has made five pounds more.’
19. “He said in like manner to him, ‘You, take authority over five cities.’
20. “Then another came, saying, ‘Master, look, here is your pound, which I have kept put away in a napkin.
21. For I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You collect what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’
22. “He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was an exacting man, collecting what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow.
23. Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, so that at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’
24. “Then he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the pound from him and give it to him who has ten pounds.’
25. “They said to him, ‘Master, he has ten pounds.’
26. “ ‘I tell you that to everyone who has will be given. But from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away from him.