The Antiquities of the Jews, 12.216

Flavius Josephus  translated by William Whiston

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216and when some said that they would give twelve talents, and that others of greater dignity would every one give according to the quantity of their riches, he pretended to every one of them to be grieved that he was not able to bring so large a present; for that he had no more than five talents. And when the servants heard what he said, they told their masters;

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