The Parable of the Talents

The parable of the talents is meant to help us better understand the orientation of the follower of jesus to a thing that's coming up. So he calls in these three servants, ays to one, he gave five talents of money. Even if we assume it's silver of its gold, it's even more. And so then to another servant, he gave two talents, which is still a crazy amount. And to another one talent, each according to his ability. Ok? Now we got three interpretive pieces out on the table. We've got the fact that, contextually, this is an extension of what jesus has been talking about. This is meant to