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Three servants. One received five talents with which to trade (by the way, talents were significant amounts of money -- the equivalent of fifteen years' wages for a laborer). The first fellow followed the market closely, knew the prospects of the crops, anticipated the arrival of the caravans from Damascus, and marked the movement of the Roman legions. On the information he gleaned, he invested his five talents shrewdly -- he made a profit of 100% on his transactions. Not bad.