Luke 19:11-28

11Now while they were listening to these things, Jesus went on to tell a parable, because 1He was near Jerusalem and they thought 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 to return. 13And he called ten of his own slaves and gave them ten 4minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with this money 5until I come back.’ 14But his citizens hated him and sent a 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 summoned to him so that he would learn how much they had made by the business they had done. 16The first slave appeared, saying, ‘6Master, your 7mina has made ten minas more.’ 17And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave; since you have been 8faithful in a very little thing, you are to have authority over ten cities.’ 18The second one came, saying, ‘Your 9mina, 10master, has made five minas.’ 19And he said to him also, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ 20And then another came, saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I kept tucked away in a handkerchief; 21for I was afraid of you, because you are a demanding man; you take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.’ 22He said to him, ‘11From your own lips I will judge you, you worthless slave. Did you know that I am a demanding man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow? 23And so why did you not put my money in the bank, and when I came back, I would have collected it with interest?’ 24And then he said to the other slaves who were present, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has the ten minas.’ 25And they said to him, ‘Master, he already has ten minas.’ 26‘12I tell you that to everyone who has, more shall be given, but from the one who does not have, even what he does have shall be taken away. 27But as for 13these enemies of mine who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and 14slaughter them in my presence.’”

28After Jesus said these things, He 15was going on ahead, 16going up to Jerusalem.