Luke 19:12-14

Modern English Version

¹² Therefore He said, “A nobleman went to a distant country to receive a kingdom and to return. ¹³ So he called his ten servants and entrusted to them ten pounds^[a] and said to them, ‘Trade until I come.’

¹⁴ “But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’