12. But he answered and said, ‘Truly I say to you, I do not know you!’
13. Therefore be on the alert, because you do not know the day or the hour!
14. For it is like a man going on a journey. He summoned his own slaves and handed over his property to them.
15. And to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each one according to his own ability, and he went on a journey immediately.
16. The one who had received the five talents went out and traded with them and gained five more.
17. In the same way the one who had the two gained two more.
18. But the one who had received the one went away and dug up the ground and hid his master’s money.