Mass Readings for Wednesday, November 17, 2027

Gospel Luke 19:11-28

• 11As they were listening to these things, continuing on, he spoke a parable, because he was nearing Jerusalem, and because they guessed that the kingdom of God might be manifested without delay.

• 12Therefore, he said: “A certain man of nobility traveled to a far away region, to receive for himself a kingdom, and to return.

• 13And calling his ten servants, he gave them ten pounds, and he said to them: ‘Do business until I return.’

• 14But his citizens hated him. And so they sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this one to reign over us.’

• 15And it happened that he returned, having received the kingdom. And he ordered the servants, to whom he had given the money, to be called so that he would know how much each one had earned by doing business.

• 16Now the first approached, saying: ‘Lord, your one pound has earned ten pounds.’

• 17And he said to him: ‘Well done, good servant. Since you have been faithful in a small matter, you will hold authority over ten cities.’

• 18And the second came, saying: ‘Lord, your one pound has earned five pounds.’

• 19And he said to him, ‘And so, you shall be over five cities.’

• 20And another approached, saying: ‘Lord, behold your one pound, which I kept stored in a cloth.

• 21For I feared you, because you are an austere man. You take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.’

• 22He said to him: ‘By your own mouth, do I judge you, O wicked servant. You knew that I am an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow.

• 23And so, why did you not give my money to the bank, so that, upon my return, I might have withdrawn it with interest?’

• 24And he said to the bystanders, ‘Take the pound away from him, and give it to him who has ten pounds.’

• 25And they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten pounds.’

• 26So then, I say to you, that to all who have, it shall be given, and he will have in abundance. And from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

• 27‘Yet truly, as for those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here, and put them to death before me.’”

• 28And having said these things, he went ahead, ascending to Jerusalem.

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