15 And it happened that when he returned after[a] receiving the kingdom, he ordered these slaves to whom he had given the money to be summoned to him, so that he could know what they had gained by trading. 16 So the first arrived, saying, ‘Sir, your mina has made ten minas more!’ 17 And he said to him, ‘Well done, good slave! Because you have been faithful in a very small thing, have authority[b] over ten cities.’

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 19:15 Here “after” is supplied as a component of the participle (“receiving”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Luke 19:17 Literally “be having authority”