21 For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man—you withdraw what you did not deposit, and you reap what you did not sow!’ 22 He said to him, ‘By your own words[a] I will judge you, wicked slave! You knew that I am a severe man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow. 23 And why did you not give my money to the bank, and I, when I[b] returned, would have collected it with interest?’

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Luke 19:22 Literally “from your own mouth”
  2. Luke 19:23 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“returned”) which is understood as temporal