19:11 While the people were listening to these things, Jesus ¹  proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, ²  and because they thought ³  that the kingdom of God ⁴  was going to ⁵  appear immediately. 19:12 Therefore he said, “A nobleman ⁶  went to a distant country to receive ⁷  for himself a kingdom and then return. ⁸  19:13 And he summoned ten of his slaves, ⁹  gave them ten minas, ¹⁰  and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I come back.’ 19:14 But his citizens ¹¹  hated ¹²  him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man ¹³  to be king ¹⁴  over us!’ 19:15 When ¹⁵  he returned after receiving the kingdom, he summoned ¹⁶  these slaves to whom he had given the money. He wanted ¹⁷  to know how much they had earned ¹⁸  by trading. 19:16 So ¹⁹  the first one came before him and said, ‘Sir, ²⁰  your mina ²¹  has made ten minas more.’ 19:17 And the king ²²  said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful ²³  in a very small matter, you will have authority ²⁴  over ten cities.’ 19:18 Then ²⁵  the second one came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has made five minas.’ 19:19 So ²⁶  the king ²⁷  said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’ 19:20 Then another ²⁸  slave ²⁹  came and said, ‘Sir, here is ³⁰  your mina that I put away for safekeeping ³¹  in a piece of cloth. ³²  19:21 For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe ³³  man. You withdraw ³⁴  what you did not deposit ³⁵  and reap what you did not sow.’ 19:22 The king ³⁶  said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, ³⁷  you wicked slave! ³⁸  So you knew, did you, that I was a severe ³⁹  man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow? 19:23 Why then didn’t you put ⁴⁰  my money in the bank, ⁴¹  so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’ 19:24 And he said to his attendants, ⁴²  ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.’ ⁴³  19:25 But ⁴⁴  they said to him, ‘Sir, he has ten minas already!’ ⁴⁵  19:26 ‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more, ⁴⁶  but from the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away. ⁴⁷  19:27 But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, ⁴⁸  bring them here and slaughter ⁴⁹  them ⁵⁰  in front of me!’”