With well-known sinners like Zacchaeus coming to faith in Christ, and Jesus getting closer to Jerusalem, Messianic fervor was building. People began spreading the idea that God's kingdom was coming right now. So Jesus told them this parable of the 10 servants and the minas to help them understand that the fullness of the kingdom was not coming now, but when it did, the faithful would be called to account and the guilty punished.
