Luke 19:11-19

11While they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell a parable, because 1He was near Jerusalem, and they supposed that 2the kingdom of God was going to appear immediately.

12So He said, “3A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself, and then return.

13And he called ten of his slaves, and gave them ten 4minas and said to them, ‘Do business with this 5until I come back.’

14But his citizens hated him and sent 6a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’

15When he returned, after receiving the kingdom, he ordered that these slaves, to whom he had given the money, be called to him so that he might know what business they had done.

16The first appeared, saying, ‘7Master, your 8mina has made ten minas more.’

17And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave, because you have been 9faithful in a very little thing, you are to be in authority over ten cities.’

18The second came, saying, ‘Your 10mina, 11master, has made five minas.’

19And he said to him also, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’