Why then did you not put my money into the bank, and at my coming I should have collected it with interest?’
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.
He said to him, ‘I will condemn you out of your own mouth, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow?
And he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the pound from him, and give it to him who has the ten pounds.’