But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed?
Then his master summoned him and said to him, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me.
Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road.
He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed,
so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’
Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.