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And the second came, saying, `Lord, thy pound hath gained five pounds.'
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And he said likewise 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 away in a napkin.
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For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up what thou layest not down, and reapest what thou did not sow.'
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And he said unto him, `Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid not down and reaping what I did not sow.
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Why then gavest not thou my money unto the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with interest?'
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And he said unto them that stood by, `Take from him the pound and give it to him that hath ten pounds.'
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(And they said unto him, `Lord, he hath ten pounds!')
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`For I say unto you, that unto every one that hath shall be given; and from him that hath not, even that which he hath shall be taken away from him.
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But those mine enemies, who would not that I should reign over them, bring them hither and slay them before me.'"
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And when Jesus had thus spoken, He went ahead, ascending up to Jerusalem.