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22 The king[a] said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words,[b] you wicked slave![c] So you knew, did you, that I was a severe[d] man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow?

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 19:22 tn Grk “He”; the referent (the nobleman of v. 12, now a king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
  2. Luke 19:22 tn Grk “out of your own mouth” (an idiom).
  3. Luke 19:22 tn Note the contrast between this slave, described as “wicked,” and the slave in v. 17, described as “good.”
  4. Luke 19:22 tn Or “exacting,” “harsh,” “hard.”