Luke 19:11. And while they were listening to these things He again told them a Parable because He was near Jerusalem and they thought that the Kingdom of God was going to be revealed at once, as soon as He reached Jerusalem. 12. Therefore He said, “A certain man, a nobleman, was going to a faraway land to take a kingdom for himself, then to return. 13. And after he called his ten servants he gave ten minas to them and said to them, ‘You must do business while I am gone.’ 14. But its citizens hated him and they sent ambassadors after him saying, ‘We do not want this one to reign over us.’ 15. Then it happened when he returned, after he took the kingdom, that he said to summon to him those servants to whom he had given the money, so that he might know what they had earned. 16. And the first one appeared saying, ‘Lord, your mina earned ten minas.’ 17. Then he said to him, ‘Well done! Good servant, because you were faithful in the least, you must continually have authority over ten cities.’ 18. Then the second came saying, ‘Your mina, lord, made five minas.’ 19. And he said to this one also, ‘Then you must continually be over five cities.’ 20. Then the other one came saying, ‘Lord, behold your mina, which I have put away in a handkerchief: 21. for I was fearing you, because you are a severe man, you take what you did not put away and you harvest what you did not sow.’ 22. He said to him, ‘From your mouth I judge you, evil servant. Had you known that I am a severe man, taking out what I did not put in and reaping what I did not sow? 23. Then why did you not give my money on a changer’s table? Then when I came I would have exacted with interest.’ 24. And to those who were standing by he said, ‘You must now take the mina from him and you must give it at once to the one who has ten minas’ 25. – then they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas.’ – 26. I say to you that to everyone who has it will be given, but from the one who does not have even what he does have will be taken. − 27. ‘Moreover my enemies, those who do not want me to reign over them, you must right now lead them here and you must slaughter them in front of me.’”