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The Talents
Mattityahu 25:14–30
PARABLE · TO THE DISCIPLES
A master entrusts servants with five, two, and one talents; on return he commends those who multiplied and casts out the one who buried his.
What you have was given to you. The master is not asking the one-talent servant to match the five-talent — He is asking him to invest what was actually his. The buried talent isn't lost to theft; it's lost to fear. Faithfulness with what you were given is the whole question.
ECHOES FROM THE TANAKH