Luke 19:11-15

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

The Parable of the Ten Pounds

¹¹ As they heard these things, he proceeded to tell a parable, because he was near to Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. ¹² He said therefore, “A nobleman went into a far country to receive kingly power^[a] and then return. ¹³ Calling ten of his servants, he gave them ten pounds,^[b] and said to them, ‘Trade with these till I come.’ ¹⁴ But his citizens hated him and sent an embassy after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’ ¹⁵ When he returned, having received the kingly power,^[c] he commanded these servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by trading.