Luke 19:9-20

⁹Jesus said to him: This day is salvation come to this house, because he also is a son of Abraham.

¹⁰For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.

¹¹As they were hearing these things, he added and spoke a parable, because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately be manifested.

¹²He said therefore: A certain nobleman went into a far country, to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

¹³And calling his ten servants, he gave them ten pounds, and said to them: Trade till I come.

¹⁴But his citizens hated him: and they sent an embassage after him, saying: We will not have this man to reign over us.

¹⁵And it came to pass, that he returned, having received the kingdom: and he commanded his servants to be called, to whom he had given the money, that he might know how much every man had gained by trading.

¹⁶And the first came, saying: Lord, thy pound hath gained ten pounds.

¹⁷And he said to him: Well done, thou good servant, because thou hast been faithful in a little, thou shalt have power over ten cities.

¹⁸And the second came, saying: Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds.

¹⁹And he said to him: Be thou also over five cities.

²⁰And another came, saying: Lord, behold here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin;