¹⁸ “The second came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has earned five more.’

¹² For if the willingness is there, the gift is acceptable according to what one has,^(A) not according to what one does not have.

²⁰ Others, like seed sown on good soil, hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.”

²³ But the seed falling on good soil refers to someone who hears the word and understands it. This is the one who produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown.”^(A)