025:012 "`In solemn truth I tell you,' he replied, `I do not know you.'
025:013 "Keep awake therefore; for you know neither the day nor the hour.
025:014 "Why, it is like a man who, when going on his travels, called his bondservants and entrusted his property to their care.
025:015 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one— to each according to his individual capacity; and then started from home.
025:016 Without delay the one who had received the five talents went and employed them in business, and gained five more.
025:017 In the same way he who had the two gained two more.
025:018 But the man who had received the one went and dug a hole
and buried his master's money.
025:019 "After a long lapse of time the master of those servants returned,
and had a reckoning with them.
025:020 The one who had received the five talents came and brought five more, and said, "`Sir, it was five talents that you entrusted to me: see, I have gained five more.'
025:021 "`You have done well, good and trustworthy servant,' replied his master; `you have been trustworthy in the management of a little, I will put you in charge of much: share your master's joy.'