Luke 19:9-20

⁹And Iesus sayd to him: this daye is healthe come vnto this housse for as moche as it also is become the chylde of Abraham.

¹⁰For the sonne of man is come to seke and to save that which was looste.

¹¹As they hearde these thinges he added ther to a similitude be cause he was nye to Hierusalem and because also they thought that the kyngdome of God shuld shortely appere.

¹²He sayde therfore: a certayne noble man wet into a farre countre to receave him a kyngdome and then to come agayne.

¹³And he called his ten servauntes and delyvered them ten pounde sayinge vnto them: by and sell till I come.

¹⁴But his citesens hated him and sent messengers after him sayinge: We will not have this man to raygne over vs.

¹⁵And it came to passe when he was come agayne and had receaved his kyngdome he commaunded these servautes to be called to him (to whom he gave his money) to witt what every man had done.

¹⁶Then came the fyrst sayinge: Lorde thy pounde hath encreased ten poude.

¹⁷And he sayde vnto him: Well good servaute because thou wast faithfull in a very lytell thynge take thou auctorite over ten cities.

¹⁸And the other came sayinge: Lorde thy poude hath encreased fyve pounde.

¹⁹And to the same he sayde: and be thou also ruler ouer fyve cities.

²⁰And the thyrde came and sayde: Lorde beholde here thy pounde which I have kepte in a napkyn