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.'
025:022 "The second, who had received the two talents, came and said,
"`Sir, it was two talents you entrusted to me: see, I have
gained two more.'
025:023 "`Good and trustworthy servant, you have done well,'
his master replied; `you have been trustworthy in the
management of a little, I will put you in charge of much:
share your master's joy.'
025:024 "But, next, the man who had the one talent in his keeping came
and said, "`Sir, I knew you to be a severe man, reaping where
you had not sown and garnering what you had not winnowed.
025:025 So being afraid I went and buried your talent in the ground:
there you have what belongs to you.'
025:026 "`You wicked and slothful servant,' replied his master,
`did you know that I reap where I have not sown, and garner
what I have not winnowed?
025:027 Your duty then was to deposit my money in some bank, and so when I
came I should have got back my property with interest.
025:028 So take away the talent from him, and give it to the man
who has the ten.'
025:029 (For to every one who has, more shall be given, and he shall
have abundance; but from him who has nothing, even what he has
shall be taken away.)
025:030 `But as for this worthless servant, put him out into
the darkness outside: *there* will be the weeping and
the gnashing of teeth.'
025:031 "When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels
with Him, then will He sit upon His glorious throne,
025:032 and all the nations will be gathered into His presence.
And He will separate them from one another, just as a shepherd
separates the sheep from the goats;
025:033 and will make the sheep stand at His right hand, and the goats
at His left.
025:034 "Then the King will say to those at His right, "`Come, my Father's
blessed ones, receive your inheritance of the Kingdom which
has been divinely intended for you ever since the creation
of the world.
025:035 For when I was hungry, you gave me food; when I was thirsty,
you gave me drink; when I was homeless, you gave me a welcome;
025:036 when I was ill-clad, you clothed me; when I was sick,
you visited me; when I was in prison, you came to see me.'
025:037 "`When, Lord,' the righteous will reply, `did we see Thee hungry,
and feed Thee; or thirsty, and give Thee drink?
025:038 When did we see Thee homeless, and give Thee a welcome? or ill-clad,
and clothe Thee?