“The second came, saying, ‘Master, your pound has made five pounds more.’
But he who received seed on the good ground is he who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit. Some produce a hundred, sixty, or thirty times what was sown.”
“He who had received two talents also came and said, ‘Master, you entrusted me with two talents. See, I have gained two more talents besides them.’
Still others are seed sown on good ground, those who hear the word, and receive it, and bear fruit: thirty, sixty, and some a hundred times as much.”
So he called his ten servants and entrusted to them ten pounds and said to them, ‘Trade until I come.’
“He said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in very little, take authority over ten cities.’
“He said in like manner to him, ‘You, take authority over five cities.’
For if there is a willing mind first, the gift is accepted according to what a man possesses and not according to what he does not possess.