The Life of Jesus

and he answering said, Verily I say to you, I have not known you.

`Watch therefore, for ye have not known the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man doth come.

`For--as a man going abroad did call his own servants, and did deliver to them his substance,

and to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each according to his several ability, went abroad immediately.

`And he who did receive the five talents, having gone, wrought with them, and made other five talents;

in like manner also he who received the two, he gained, also he, other two;

and he who did receive the one, having gone away, digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.

`And after a long time cometh the lord of those servants, and taketh reckoning with them;

and he who did receive the five talents having come, brought other five talents, saying, `Sir, five talents thou didst deliver to me; lo, other five talents did I gain besides them.

`And his lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.

`And he who also did receive the two talents having come, said, Sir, two talents thou didst deliver to me; lo, other two talents I did gain besides them.

`His lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.

`And he also who hath received the one talent having come, said, Sir, I knew thee, that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou didst not sow, and gathering from whence thou didst not scatter;

and having been afraid, having gone away, I hid thy talent in the earth; lo, thou hast thine own!

`And his lord answering said to him, Evil servant, and slothful, thou hadst known that I reap where I did not sow, and I gather whence I did not scatter!

it behoved thee then to put my money to the money-lenders, and having come I had received mine own with increase.

`Take therefore from him the talent, and give to him having the ten talents,

for to every one having shall be given, and he shall have overabundance, and from him who is not having, even that which he hath shall be taken from him;

and the unprofitable servant cast ye forth to the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

`And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory;

and gathered together before him shall be all the nations, and he shall separate them from one another, as the shepherd doth separate the sheep from the goats,

and he shall set the sheep indeed on his right hand, and the goats on the left.

`Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

for I did hunger, and ye gave me to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me to drink; I was a stranger, and ye received me;

naked, and ye put around me; I was infirm, and ye looked after me; in prison I was, and ye came unto me.