Faithfulness

The crowd was listening to everything Jesus said. And because he was nearing Jerusalem, he told them a story to correct the impression that the Kingdom of God would begin right away. [Luke 19.11]

I have struggled today to see the continuity of this account with the rest of the New Testament in regard to the Kingdom of God.

Jesus had already told the disciples that the Kingdom of God was among them (Luke 17.21). How could He now be telling a story to "correct their impression that the Kingdom would begin right away" if it was already among them?

Also, I don't get how the story actually accomplished what Luke said it was to accomplish. If I were going to say what the story Jesus told was about, I would have said it was a story to encourage faithfulness based on the content of the story.

Luke also records Jesus to have said there were originally ten servants, but the story following discussed three as if there were only three... What did the other seven do?

This story seems to be one and the same as Matthew 25.14-30. However, it would appear, based on Luke's conflicting presentation of it, that he may have not gotten all the facts right in his documentation of it.

Father, I don't know what to make of my thoughts today except that I am sure Jesus told this story! And regardless of what Luke said it was about and regardless whether the details (numbers) are altogether accurate, I still see a huge lesson on faithfulness. Thank You!