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The Parable of The Minas: Do Business With The Resources I Have Given You

11 And while they were listening-to these things, having proceeded [to speak further], He spoke a parable because of His being near Jerusalem and their thinking[a] that the kingdom of God was about to appear[b] at-once. 12 Therefore He said, “A certain well-born[c] man traveled to a distant country to receive a kingdom for himself, and to return. 13 And having called ten of his own slaves, he gave them ten minas[d] and said to them, ‘Do business while I am coming’.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 19:11 Or, supposing, presuming.
  2. Luke 19:11 Or, come-into-sight.
  3. Luke 19:12 Or, noble, socially important.
  4. Luke 19:13 A mina is equivalent to 100 denarii (100 days’ wages for a laborer).

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