Riverside(i)
12 He said, "A certain nobleman went into a far country to get for himself a kingdom and return.
13 Calling his ten servants, he gave them each an equal sum of money and said to them, 'Do business until I come.'
14 But his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him to say, 'We do not want this man to be king over us.'
15 When he returned, having secured the royal power, he ordered those servants to whom he had given the silver to be called to him that he might know what each had gained in trading.
16 The first came saying, 'Sir, your money has gained tenfold.'
17 He said, 'Well done, good servant, because you were faithful in the least you shall be ruler over ten cities.'
18 Then came the second, saying, 'Your money, Sir, has made fivefold.'
19 He said to this one, 'And you shall be over five cities.'
20 Another one came, saying, 'Sir, here is your silver, which I kept laid away in a napkin.
21 For I feared you, because you are an austere man; you take up what you did not lay down and you reap where you did not sow.'
22 He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant. Did you know that I was an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping where I did not sow?
23 Then why did you not put my silver into the bank, so that when I came I could have exacted it with interest?'
24 Then to those who stood by he said, 'Take from him the silver and give it to him who has tenfold.'
25 They said to him, 'Sir, he has tenfold.'
26 'I tell you,' he said, 'that to every one who has, shall be given, and from him who has not, even what he has shall be taken.