Category:Nobleman Who Received a Kingdom Parable

Luke 19:12, 19:14, 19:15a, 19:27

19:12. He said therefore, “A certain nobleman went into a far country to receive for himself a kingdom and to return.

19:13. “Calling his ten servants, he gave them ten talents worth six thousand day's wages apiece and said to them, 'Trade till I come.'

19:14. “But his citizens hated him and they sent an embassage after him, saying, 'We will not have this man reign over us.'



19:15. “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.

19:16. “The first came saying, 'Lord, your talent has gained ten talents.'

19:17. “He said to him, 'Well done, good servant, because you have been faithful in a little, you shalt have power over ten cities.'

19:18. “The second came, saying, 'Lord, your talent has gained five talents.'

19:19. “He said to him, 'Be over five cities also.'

19:20. “Another came, saying, 'Lord, behold here is your talent, which I have kept laid up in a napkin.

19:21. “'For I feared you, because you are an austere man; you take up what you did not lay down, and you reap that which you did not sow.'

'''19:22. “He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping that which I did not sow.'''

19:23. “'Why then did you not put my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have exacted it with interest?'

19:24. “He said to those that stood by, 'Take the talent away from him and give it to him that has ten talents.'

19:25. “They said to him, 'Lord, he has ten talents.'

19:26. “But he said to them, 'But I say to you that to everyone that has more shall be given, and he shall abound, and from him that has not, even that which he has shall be taken from him.

19:27. “'But as for those enemies of mine who would not have me reign over them, bring them here and kill them in my presence.'”