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And the second came, saying: Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds.
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And he said to him: Be thou also over five cities.
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And another came, saying: Lord, behold here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin.
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For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up what thou didst not lay down: and thou reapest that which thou didst not sow.
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He saith to him: Out of thy own mouth I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid not down and reaping that which I did not sow.
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And why then didst thou not give my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have exacted it with usury?
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And he said to them that stood by: Take the pound away from him and give it to him that hath ten pounds.
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And they said to him: Lord, he hath ten pounds.
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But I say to you that to every one that hath shall be given, and he shall abound: and from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken from him.
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But as for those my enemies, who would not have me reign over them, bring them hither and kill them before me.
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And having said these things, he went before, going up to Jerusalem.