[25:14] “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants and entrusted to them his property.
[25:15] To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.
[25:16] He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more.
[25:17] So also he who had the two talents made two talents more.
[25:18] But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master’s money.
[25:19] Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
[25:20] And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here I have made five talents more.’
[25:21] His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
[25:22] And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here I have made two talents more.’
[25:23] His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
[25:24] He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed,
[25:25] so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’
[25:26] But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?
[25:27] Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.
[25:28] So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents.
[25:29] For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.
[25:30] And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’