Luke 19:23 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²³ then why did you not deposit my money in the bank? [Then] when I returned I could have withdrawn [the original sum of money] plus interest.’

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ Then why did you not put my money in a bank, so that on my return, I might have collected it with interest?

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ then wherefore gavest thou not my money into the bank, and I at my coming should have required it with interest?

Common English Bible

²³ Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank? Then when I arrived, at least I could have gotten it back with interest.’

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And so, why did you not give my money to the bank, so that, upon my return, I might have withdrawn it with interest?'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ And why then didst thou not give my money into the bank, that at my coming, I might have exacted it with usury?

Luke 19:23 Cross References

Matthew 25:27

you should have therefore deposited my money in the bank [so] when I returned, [at least] I would have received my own money back, with interest.

Luke 19:22

The gentleman replied to him, ‘I will judge you [based] on what you [yourself] have [just] said, you evil slave. [Since] you knew that I am a hard man to deal with, picking up [and keeping] something I had not laid down, and harvesting a crop I had not planted,

Luke 19:24

Then he said to those who were standing around, ‘Take the sum of money away from him and give it to the one who made ten times as much [with the original sum].’