Why, then, did you not put my money into the bank? Then when I returned, I could have collected it with interest.’
Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and on my return I would have received what was my own with interest.
He said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! You knew, did you, that I was a harsh man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
He said to the bystanders, ‘Take the pound from him and give it to the one who has ten pounds.’