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.’
18When the second came, he said ‘Your ten pounds, Sir, have produced fifty.’
19So the master said to him ‘And you I appoint over five towns.’
20Another servant also came and said ‘Sir, here are your ten pounds; I have kept them put away in a handkerchief.
21For 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.’
22The 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?
23Then why didn't you put my money into a bank? And I, on my return, could have claimed it with interest.
24Take 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 said, ‘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.
27But as for my enemies, these men who would not have me as their king, bring them here and put them to death in my presence.’”
28After saying this, Jesus went on in front, going up to Jerusalem.
29It was when Jesus had almost reached Bethphage and Bethany, near the Mount of Olives, that he sent on two of the disciples.
30“Go to the village facing us,” he said, “and, when you get there, you will find a foal tethered, which no one has yet ridden; untie it and lead it here.
31And, if anybody asks you ‘Why are you untying it?,’ you are to say this — ‘The Master wants it.’”
32So the two who were sent went and found it as Jesus had told them.
33While they were untying the foal, the owners asked them — “Why are you untying the foal?”
34And the two disciples answered — “The Master wants it.”
35Then they led it back to Jesus, and threw their cloaks on the foal and put Jesus on it.
Luke 19
Luke 19:17-35