Then the next came and said, 'Here is your five pounds, sir; I kept it safe in a napkin,
Then the servant who had got the two hundred and fifty pounds came forward. He said, 'I knew you were a hard man, sir, reaping where you never sowed and gathering where you never winnowed.
[follows 2:26] Whoever, then, knows what is right to do and does not do it, that is a sin for him.
He first called his ten servants, giving them each a five-pound note, and telling them, 'Trade with this till I come back.'
Why call me, 'Lord, Lord!' and obey me not?
The axe is lying all ready at the root of the trees; any tree that is not producing good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire."
To him he said, 'And you are set over five towns.'
for I was afraid of you, you are such a hard man — picking up what you never put down, and reaping what you never sowed.'
Out came the dead man, his feet and hands swathed in bandages, and his face tied up with a towel. Jesus said, "Untie him, and let him move."
but that the napkin which had been round his head was folded up by itself, instead of lying beside the other bandages.