¹⁸ Then the second came, saying, ‘Lord, your pound has made five pounds.’

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

²⁰ And these are the ones sown on the good soil: they hear the word and accept it and bear fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.”

²³ But as for what was sown on good soil, this is the one who hears the word and understands it, who indeed bears fruit and yields in one case a hundredfold, in another sixty, and in another thirty.”^(A)