13. Watch therefore, for you don’t know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.
14. “For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.
15. To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
16. Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
17. In the same way, he also who got the two gained another two.
18. But he who received the one talent went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.
19. “Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.
20. He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, ‘Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.’