'You lazy, worthless servant!' was his master's reply. 'You knew that I reap where I have not sown, and gather up where I have not winnowed?
Upon that the master sent for the servant, and said to him 'You wicked servant! When you begged me for mercy, I forgave you the whole of that debt.
The immense crowd of people spread their cloaks in the road, while some cut branches off the trees, and spread them on the road.
The man who had received the six hundred pounds came up, too, and said 'Sir, I knew that you were a hard man; you reap where you have not sown, and gather up where you have not winnowed;
And, in my fear, I went and hid your money in the ground; look, here is what belongs to you!'
Then you ought to have placed my money in the hands of bankers, and I, on my return, should have received my money, with interest.