Then ¹  the slave said, ‘Sir, what you instructed has been done, and there is still room.’ ² 

Then ¹  the second one came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has made five minas.’

But ¹  they said to him, ‘Sir, he has ten minas already!’ ² 

The woman said to him, “Sir, I see ¹  that you are a prophet.

“Sir,” the official said to him, “come down before my child dies.”

So they said to him, “Sir, ¹  give us this bread all the time!”

The man ¹  replied, ²  “And who is he, sir, that ³  I may believe in him?”

So ¹  the first one came before him and said, ‘Sir, ²  your mina ³  has made ten minas more.’

So these approached Philip, ¹  who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested, ²  “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”

The father ¹  went to the other son and said the same thing. This boy answered, ²  ‘I will, sir,’ but did not go.

The ¹  one who had received the five talents came and brought five more, saying, ‘Sir, ²  you entrusted me with five talents. See, I have gained five more.’

The ¹  one with the two talents also came and said, ‘Sir, you entrusted two talents to me. See, I have gained two more.’

and said, “Sir, we remember that while that deceiver was still alive he said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

But the worker ¹  answered him, ‘Sir, leave it alone this year too, until I dig around it and put fertilizer ²  on it.

Then another ¹  slave ²  came and said, ‘Sir, here is ³  your mina that I put away for safekeeping ⁴  in a piece of cloth. ⁵ 

“Sir,” ¹  the woman ²  said to him, “you have no bucket and the well ³  is deep; where then do you get this ⁴  living water? ⁵ 

The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw ¹  water.” ² 

So the slaves ¹  of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the weeds come from?’

Then the one who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Sir, I knew that you were a hard man, harvesting where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter seed,

The sick man answered him, “Sir, ¹  I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, ²  someone else ³  goes down there ⁴  before me.”