Twentieth_Century(i)
16 The first came up, and said 'Sir, your ten pounds have made a hundred.'
17 'Well done, good servant!' exclaimed the master. 'As you have proved trustworthy in a very small matter, I appoint you governor over ten towns.'
18 When the second came, he said 'Your ten pounds, Sir, have produced fifty.'
19 So the master said to him 'And you I appoint over five towns.'
20 Another servant also came and said 'Sir, here are your ten pounds; I have kept them put away in a handkerchief.
21 For I was afraid of you, because you are a stern man. You take what you have not planted, and reap what you have not sown.'
22 The master answered 'Out of your own mouth I judge you, you worthless servant. You knew that I am a stern man, that I take what I have not planted, and reap what I have not sown?
23 Then why did not you put my money into a bank? And I, on my return, could have claimed it with interest.
24 Take away from him the ten pounds,' he said to those standing by, 'and give them to the one who has the hundred.'
25 'But, Sir,' they interposed, 'he has a hundred pounds already!'
26 'I tell you,' he answered, 'that, to him who has, more will be given, but, from him who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away.