WPNT(i)
13 He called ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Conduct business until I come’.
14 But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us’.
15 It happened that he did receive the kingdom, and upon returning he ordered that those slaves to whom he had given the money be called to him, to know who had gained what by trading.
16 So the first one came and said, ‘Master, your mina earned ten minas!’
17 He said to him: ‘Super, you good slave! Because you were faithful in a very little, have authority over ten cities!’
18 And the second one came and said, ‘Master, your mina made five minas’.
19 Likewise he said to him, ‘You also be over five cities’.
20 Then a different one came, saying: ‘Master, here is your mina, that I kept laid away in a piece of cloth
21 —I feared you because you are a hard man, removing what you did not place, and reaping what you did not sow.’
22 So he said to him: ‘I will judge you out of your own mouth, you wicked slave! You knew that I am a hard man, removing what I didn’t place, and reaping what I didn’t sow.
23 Why then didn’t you put my money on deposit, and upon coming I would have collected it with interest?’
24 And to those standing by he said, ‘Take the mina from him and give it to him who has the ten minas’.
25 (They even said to him, ‘Master, he already has ten minas!’)
26 ‘Indeed I tell you, to everyone who has, more will be given; but from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.