Then the second one came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has made five minas.’

So the king said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’

After some time his wife Elizabeth became pregnant, and for five months she kept herself in seclusion. She said,

“A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other fifty.

Aren’t five sparrows sold for two pennies? Yet not one of them is forgotten before God.

For from now on there will be five in one household divided, three against two and two against three.

(for I have five brothers) to warn them so that they don’t come into this place of torment.’

Another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going out to examine them. Please excuse me.’

(Now about five thousand men were there.) Then he said to his disciples, “Have them sit down in groups of about fifty each.”

But he said to them, “You give them something to eat.” They replied, “We have no more than five loaves and two fish – unless we go and buy food for all these people.”

Then he took the five loaves and the two fish, and looking up to heaven he gave thanks and broke them. He gave them to the disciples to set before the crowd.

And he summoned ten of his slaves, gave them ten minas, and said to them, ‘Do business with these until I come back.’