025:011 "Afterwards the other bridesmaids came and cried, "`Sir, Sir,
open the door to us.'
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.'
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.'