Thankyou for asking about a difficult question -- one of the more difficult parables to interpret I think -- meaningful to you. This one turns out to need having read more of the Gospels, to get the references and interpret the parable. Let's look at the verse and see.
Luke 19:27 is inside the
Parable of the Ten Minas.
Verses in parables have their only meaning solely as part of the parable as a whole.
Just like if you had a sentence taken from a poem, you need the poem to get the meaning of the sentence.
Sometimes a parable also is in immediate response to a situation, so we have to look for that just in case, also.
Ok, let's look --
We see the Parable is
verses 11 through 27, but we notice the parable
begins with a connector--
"While they were listening to this," -- so we'd better include what the "this" is they were listening to, just in case we need it (even though it looks like it's not needed, experience shows sometimes that extra context helps), so we see when looking for that already happening situation, the entire time/situation begins at verse 1. I will underline what jumps out as crucial context also.
Altogether we have:
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1 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through.
2 A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy.
3 He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd.
4 So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree to see him, since Jesus was coming that way.
5 When Jesus reached the spot, he looked up and said to him, “Zacchaeus, come down immediately. I must stay at your house today.”
6 So he came down at once and welcomed him gladly.
7 All the people saw this and began to mutter, “He has gone to be the guest of a sinner.”
8 But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord! Here and now I give half of my possessions to the poor, and if I have cheated anybody out of anything, I will pay back four times the amount.”
9 Jesus said to him, “Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham.
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.”
The Parable of the Ten Minas
11 While they were listening to this,
he went on to tell them a parable, because he was near Jerusalem and the people thought that the kingdom of God was going to appear at once. 12 He said: “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return.
13 So he called ten of his servants and gave them ten minas.
a ‘Put this money to work,’ he said, ‘until I come back.’
14 “But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We don’t want this man to be our king.’
15“He was made king, however, and returned home. Then he sent for the servants to whom he had given the money, in order to find out what they had gained with it.
16“The first one came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has earned ten more.’
17“ ‘Well done, my good servant!’ his master replied. ‘Because you have been trustworthy in a very small matter, take charge of ten cities.’
18“The second came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has earned five more.’
19“His master answered, ‘You take charge of five cities.’
20“Then another servant came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina; I have kept it laid away in a piece of cloth.
21I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take out what you did not put in and reap what you did not sow.’
22“His master replied, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant!
You knew, did you, that I am a hard man, taking out what I did not put in, and reaping what I did not sow?
23 Why then didn’t you put my money on deposit, so that when I came back, I could have collected it with interest?’
24“Then he said to those standing by, ‘Take his mina away from him and give it to the one who has ten minas.’
25“ ‘Sir,’ they said, ‘he already has ten!’
26 “He replied, ‘I tell you that to everyone who has, more will be given, but as for the one who has nothing, even what they have will be taken away.
27 But those enemies of mine who did not want me to be king over them—bring them here and kill them in front of me.’ ”
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Some things we can see right off: in the parable the man of noble birth must be Christ Himself, and He is going to leave, and then come back, in the parable.
Notice the profound distrust of the 'wicked servant' -- this one truly
did not trust, did not have faith in the Master as good and rewarding those who believed in him, but distrusted instead.
Instead of faith, he had distrust.
Also,
this same parable is also in the Gospel of Matthew, we see the same Parable with slightly different wording, in Matthew 25:14-30, so we can look at that, and we see the final verse is the parallel verse, another version of Luke 19:27. It reads in Matthew:
28 “ ‘So take the bag of gold from him and give it to the one who has ten bags.
29 For whoever has will be given more, and they will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what they have will be taken from them.
30 And throw that worthless servant outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’"
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This helps, since the familiar wording of throwing into the (outer) darkness, where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth is the outcome of
failing to gain salvation, as shown in
chapter 8 --
5 When Jesus had entered Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking for help.
6 “Lord,” he said, “my servant lies at home paralyzed, suffering terribly.”
7 Jesus said to him, “Shall I come and heal him?”
8 The centurion replied, “Lord, I do not deserve to have you come under my roof. But just say the word, and my servant will be healed.
9 For I myself am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. I tell this one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and that one, ‘Come,’ and he comes. I say to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
10 When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him, “Truly I tell you,
I have not found anyone in Israel with such great faith. 11 I say to you that
many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven.
12 But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
13 Then Jesus said to the centurion, “Go! Let it be done just as you believed it would.” And his servant was healed at that moment.
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There!
Now we have that clear message: those in Israel, the chosen people -- they who were up till then the only subjects of the kingdom -- those in Israel who did not have real faith in God had rejected the prophets over and over, as Christ pointed out several times in the gospels. And...here we see
those in Israel without faith in God -- are going to be replaced in the Kingdom of Heaven
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Now we are in a better place, having found the same parable in Matthew, and understanding the key wordings, to get the real meaning of Luke 19:27.
Do you see it?
Those in Israel without faith, who reject Christ also, because they are not believing in God truly to begin with (as pointed out in the Gospel of John), are in the final day of Judgement enemies not reconciled, and so what they had (the old covenant inheritance) will be taken away (they broke the covenant and lose their reward), and they will perish, and not gain eternal Life.
So, the parable is about faith -- in God -- that is trust. Those trusting God accept Christ Who says to us "love one another". Those without faith do not believe in Christ Who says "love one another".
And so therefore this parable is not only about Israel then. It's about all of us.
More, if we actually have faith, then we will use our abilities here on Earth in service, in faith/hope of the return of the noble one.
It's down to whether one believes in God, He Who rewards kindness and love and charity and doing right.
Or the opposite choice, which is to disbelieve in Good as the essential truth of existence.
One faces the existential question -- do you really believe in the
Good, or instead distrust that the Creator is Good? The 'wicked servant' disbelieved in God -- the only true God, as He is, the Creator Who is good -- during this mortal life.
Because he did not believe, he did not bother to do the effort/work that faith would cause of using his abilities in service of the instructions of God -- "love your neighbor as yourself".
Those rejecting the good will perish, and that's an awful experience, which they will have deserved by rejecting Good, or the essence of Good.
He is real.
It's all for real, and it will all happen.
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