13. So he called his ten servants and entrusted to them ten pounds and said to them, ‘Trade until I come.’
14. “But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’
15. “When he returned, having received the kingdom, he summoned these servants, to whom he had entrusted the money, that he might know what everyone gained by trading.
16. “The first came, saying, ‘Master, your pound has made ten pounds more.’
17. “He said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in very little, take authority over ten cities.’
18. “The second came, saying, ‘Master, your pound has made five pounds more.’
19. “He said in like manner to him, ‘You, take authority over five cities.’
20. “Then another came, saying, ‘Master, look, here is your pound, which I have kept put away in a napkin.
21. For I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You collect what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’
22. “He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was an exacting man, collecting what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow.