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Luke 19:9-20

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9So Jesus said about him, “Today salvation has happened in this house, in that he also is a son of Abraham;
10because the Son of the Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
11Now as they heard these things, He continued with a parable, because He was near Jerusalem and they were supposing that the Kingdom of God was on the verge of being revealed.
12So He said: “A certain nobleman went to a distant country to receive for himself a kingdom and return.
13He called ten of his slaves, gave them ten ‘minas’, and said to them, ‘Conduct business until I come.’
14But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’
15It happened that he did receive the kingdom, and upon returning he ordered that those slaves to whom he had given the money be called to him, to know who had gained what by trading.
16So the first one came and said, ‘Master, your mina earned ten minas!’
17He said to him: ‘Super, you good slave! Because you were faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities!’
18And the second one came and said, ‘Master, your mina made five minas.’
19Likewise he said to him, ‘You also be over five cities.’
20Then a different one came, saying: ‘Master, here is your mina, that I kept laid away in a piece of cloth

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