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Matthew 25:16
The servant who had received the five talents went at once and put them to work and gained five more.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Jesus narrates a parable to his disciples about a master who distributes resources to his servants according to their individual capacity before departing on a journey.
The words — The Greek verb ἠργάσατο (ērgasato) literally means "he traded" or "he worked with," capturing the servant's immediate commercial engagement with the five talents.
The thread — The pattern of active stewardship recurs in 2 Timothy 2:6 regarding the hardworking farmer and in Philemon 1:6 concerning effective partnership in faith.
Why it lands — The text requires immediate, productive action with whatever capacity one has been given, rather than passive preservation.
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The Greek words
King James Version
Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.
Cross-references
- 1 Timothy 6:17 Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
- 2 Timothy 2:6 The hardworking farmer should be the first to partake of the crops.
- Philemon 1:6 I pray that your partnership in the faith may become effective as you fully acknowledge every good thing that is ours in Christ.
- 3 John 1:5 Beloved, you are faithful in what you are doing for the brothers, and especially since they are strangers to you.
- 2 Chronicles 33:15 He removed the foreign gods and the idol from the house of the LORD, along with all the altars he had built on the temple mount and in Jerusalem, and he dumped them outside the city.
- Nehemiah 5:14 Furthermore, from the day King Artaxerxes appointed me to be their governor in the land of Judah, from his twentieth year until his thirty-second year (twelve years total), neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.
- Isaiah 23:18 Yet her profits and wages will be set apart to the LORD; they will not be stored or saved, for her profit will go to those who live before the LORD, for abundant food and fine clothing.
- Isaiah 60:5 Then you will look and be radiant, and your heart will tremble and swell with joy, because the riches of the sea will be brought to you, and the wealth of the nations will come to you.
- Acts 13:36 For when David had served God’s purpose in his own generation, he fell asleep. His body was buried with his fathers and saw decay.
- Romans 15:18 I will not presume to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me in leading the Gentiles to obedience by word and deed,