10. The Son of Man came to find lost people and save them.”
11. Jesus traveled closer to Jerusalem. Some of the people thought that God’s kingdom would appear soon.
12. Jesus knew that the people thought this, so he told them this story: “A very important man was preparing to go to a country far away to be made a king. Then he planned to return home and rule his people.
13. So the man called ten of his servants together. He gave a bag of money to each servant. He said, ‘Do business with this money till I get back.’
14. But the people in the kingdom hated the man. So they sent a group to follow him and say, ‘We don’t want this man to be our king!’
15. “But the man became king. When he came home, he said, ‘Call those servants who have my money. I want to know how much they earned with it.’
16. “The first servant came and said, ‘Sir, I earned ten bags of money with the one bag you gave me!’