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Then Jesus spake to the multitudes, and to his disciples,

And having gone forth, Jesus departed from the temple, and his disciples came near to show him the buildings of the temple,

he on the house-top -- let him not come down to take up any thing out of his house;

and he in the field -- let him not turn back to take his garments.

and he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens unto the ends thereof.

and this know, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief doth come, he had watched, and not suffered his house to be broken through;

`Who, then, is the servant, faithful and wise, whom his lord did set over his household, to give them the nourishment in season?

Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so;

verily I say to you, that over all his substance he will set him.

`And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come,

and will cut him off, and his portion with the hypocrites will appoint; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

`For -- as a man going abroad did call his own servants, and did deliver to them his substance,

and to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each according to his several ability, went abroad immediately.

and he who did receive the one, having gone away, digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.

`And his lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.

`His lord said to him, Well done, servant, good and faithful, over a few things thou wast faithful, over many things I will set thee; enter into the joy of thy lord.

`And his lord answering said to him, Evil servant, and slothful, thou hadst known that I reap where I did not sow, and I gather whence I did not scatter!

`And whenever the Son of Man may come in his glory, and all the holy messengers with him, then he shall sit upon a throne of his glory;

and he shall set the sheep indeed on his right hand, and the goats on the left.

`Then shall the king say to those on his right hand, Come ye, the blessed of my Father, inherit the reign that hath been prepared for you from the foundation of the world;