Luke 19:12-19

12So He said, “1A 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 2minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with this money 3until 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, ‘4Master, your 5mina has made ten minas more.’

17And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave; since you have been 6faithful in a very little thing, you are to have authority over ten cities.’

18The second one came, saying, ‘Your 7mina, 8master, has made five minas.’

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