¹⁸ And another came, saying, Your pound has made five pounds.

²³ And the seed which was put in good earth, this is he who gives ear to the word, and gets the sense of it; who gives fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.

²⁰ And these are they who were planted on the good earth; such as give ear to the word, and take it into their hearts, and give fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundred times as much.

¹² For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.