Luke 19:17-26

Goodspeed(i) 17 And he said to him, 'Well done, my excellent slave! You have proved trustworthy about a very small amount, you shall be governor of ten towns.' 18 The second came in and said, 'Your twenty dollars has made a hundred, sir!' 19 And he said to him, 'And you shall be governor of five towns!' 20 And the other one came in and said, 'Here is your twenty dollars, sir. I have kept it put away in a handkerchief, 21 for I was afraid of you, for you are a stern man. You pick up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.' 22 He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth I will convict you, you wretched slave! You knew, did you, that I was a stern man, and that I pick up what I did not lay down, and harvest what I did not sow? 23 Then why did you not put my money in the bank, so that when I came back I could have gotten it with interest?' 24 And he said to the bystanders, 'Take the twenty dollars away from him, and give it to the man who has the two hundred!' 25 They said to him, 'He has two hundred, sir!'— 26 'I tell you, the man who has will have more given him, and from the man who has nothing, even what he has will be taken away!