“His master answered, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather where I have not winnowed.
“Then his master, after he had summoned him, said to him, ‘O you wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt, because you pleaded with me.
A very large crowd spread their garments on the road. Others cut down branches from the trees and spread them on the road.
“Then he who had received the one talent came and said, ‘Master, I knew that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not winnow.
So I was afraid, and went and hid your talent in the ground. Here you have what is yours.’
Then you ought to have given my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest.