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Hint
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Answer
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"While they were listening to this, [Jesus] went on to tell them a _______,
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parable
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because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of ___ was going to appear at once.
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God
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He said: 'A man of noble birth went to a distant _______ to have himself appointed king and then to return.
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country
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So he called ten of his ________ and gave them ten minas. 'Put this money to work,' he said, 'until I come back.'
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servants
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But his subjects _____ him and sent a delegation after him to say, 'We don't want this man to be our king.'
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hated
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He was made ____, however, and returned home.
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king
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Then he sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, in order to find out what they had ______ with it.
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gained
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The first one came and said, 'Sir, your mina has earned ___ more.'
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ten
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'Well done, my ____ servant!' his master replied.
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good
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'Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten ______.'
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cities
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The second one came and said, 'Sir your ____ has earned five more.' His master answered, 'You take charge of five cities.'
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mina
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Then another servant came and said, 'Sir, here is your mina; I have kept it laid away in a piece of _____.
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cloth
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I was ______ of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.'
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afraid
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His master replied, 'I will judge you by your own _____, you wicked servant!
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words
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You knew, did you, that I am a ____ man, taking out what I did not put in and reaping what I did not sow?
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hard
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Why then didn't you put my money on deposit, so that when I came back, I could have collected it with ________?'
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interest
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Then he said to those standing by, 'Take his mina away from him and ____ it to the one who has ten minas.'
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give
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'Sir,' they said, 'he _______ has ten!'
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already
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He replied, 'I tell you that to everyone who has, ____ will be given,
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more
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but as for the one who has _______, even what they have will be taken away.
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nothing
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But those _______ of mine who did not want me to be king over them --
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enemies
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bring them here and ____ them in front of me.''"
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kill
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