Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
Take ye away therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him that hath the ten talents.
`Take therefore from him the talent, and give to him having the ten talents,
Take therefore the talent from him, and give it to him that has the ten talents:
Matthew — The Gospel of the promised King. Five discourses punctuate the narrative; roughly sixty-five Old Testament citations bind the story to the prophets.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk7
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Luke 10:42But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”
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One thing I have asked of the LORD; this is what I desire: to dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the…
The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; You have made my lot secure.
My sheep listen to My voice; I know them, and they follow Me.
But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
Whom have I in heaven but You? And on earth I desire no one besides You.
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Luke 19:24Then he told those standing by, ‘Take the mina from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.’
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So he called him in to ask, ‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in an account of your management, for you cannot be manager any longer.’
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
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Voices4
But what he thought would be his excuse is turned into his condemnation. He calls him wicked servant, because he cavilled against his Lord; and slothful, because he would not double his talent; condemning his pride in the one, and his idleness in the other. If you knew me to be hard and austere, and to seek after other men's goods, you should also have known that I exact with the more rigour that is mine own, and should have given my money to the bankers; for the Greek word here (ἀζγύριον) means money.
Jerome· Catena Aurea by Aquinas, 420patristic
The master had three servants. After they believed and became his servants, they were given a task to do. They received money from their master. One of them "traded" with it and "gained." The second one "gained," but not as much. And the third, out of fear and being insufficiently faithful, "went away and hid" his master's money. From his defensiveness it appears that he feared the master. He was in awe of the master even as the other had "zeal for God but not according to knowledge." Diffidently, he "hid" his talent in the ground.
Origen of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON MATTHEW 66, 253patristic
Take therefore the talent from him,....
John Gill· Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)reformed
That we may then be ready to receive from him our final sentence, and that it may be to eternal life; and this is shown in a more plain description of the process of the last judgment,
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
The verses this one reaches4
For whoever has will be given more. But whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.”
Then he told those standing by, ‘Take the mina from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.’
He replied, ‘I tell you that everyone who has will be given more; but the one who does not have, even what he has will be taken away from him.
But only one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, and it will not be taken away from her.”
