26 they said unto him, Lord, he hath ten pounds. I say unto you, that unto every one that hath shall be given; but from him that hath 27 not, even that which he hath shall be taken away from him. Howbeit these mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me. 28 And when he had thus spoken, he went on before, going up to Jerusalem. [Footnote 1: Gr. _bondservants_.] [Footnote 2: _Mina_, here translated a pound, is equal to one hundred drachmas. See ch. 15:8.] [Footnote 3: Gr. _bondservant_.] [Footnote 4: Gr. _the other_.] [Footnote 5: Or, _I should have gone and required_.] [Footnote a: The similar parable of the Talents was given several days later. See § 139. On this first occasion the illustration has a specific design (ver. 11 f.), which will not appear on the second, _viz._, to check the wild enthusiasm of the multitude to make Jesus King in Jerusalem as they had once planned a year ago (John 6:15. § 73).] PART XI THE LAST PUBLIC MINISTRY IN JERUSALEM _Friday before to Tuesday of Passion Week, Spring of A.D. 30 (or A.D. 29).[a] Just before Passover. §§ 128a-138._ [Footnote a: If the feast of John 5:1 was a Passover, and so his ministry lasted over three years, then his death was pretty certainly in A.D. 30; otherwise in A.D. 29.] § 128a. JESUS ARRIVES AT BETHANY,[a] NEAR JERUSALEM Friday afternoon John 11:55 to 12:1, 9-11 55 Now the passover of the Jews was at hand: and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, to purify 56 themselves. They sought therefore for Jesus, and spake one with another, as they stood in the temple, What think ye? That he will 57 not come to the feast? Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given commandment, that, if any man knew where he was, he should shew it, that they might take him. 1 Jesus therefore six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus raised from the dead.[b] 9 The common people therefore of the Jews learned that he was there: and they came, not for Jesus' sake only, but that they might 10 see Lazarus also, whom he raised from the dead. But the chief 11 priests took counsel that they might put Lazarus also to death; because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus. [Footnote a: Compare former visits to this Bethany, §§ 104, 118, and see also below, § 141.] [Footnote b: John (12:2-8) gives the supper in the house of Simon the leper at this stage, probably because it is the last mention of Bethany in his Gospel. It seems better to follow the order of Mark here in the location of the anointing of Jesus by Mary of Bethany.]