Luke 19:23–29

23 why, then, didn’t you put my money in the bank? And when I returned, I would have collected it with interest.’ 24 So he said to those standing there, ‘Take the mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.’

25 “But they said to him, ‘Master, he has ten minas.’

26 “ ‘I tell you, that to everyone who has, more will be given; and from the one who does not have, even what he does have will be taken away.c 27 But bring here these enemies of mine,d who did not want me to rule over them, and slaughterB them in my presence.’ ”

THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY

28 Whene he had said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.f 29 As he approached Bethphage and Bethany, at the place called the Mount of Olives,g he sent two of the disciples