Luke 19:10-12

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁰ For the Son of Man came to seek out and to save the lost.’

The Parable of the Ten Pounds

¹¹ As they were listening to this, he went on to tell a parable, because he was near Jerusalem, and because they supposed that the kingdom of God was to appear immediately. ¹² So he said, ‘A nobleman went to a distant country to get royal power for himself and then return.