Moffatt(i)
16 The first came up saying, 'Your five pounds has made other fifty, sir.'
17 'Capital,' he said, 'you excellent servant! because you have proved trustworthy in a trifle, you are placed over ten towns.'
18 Then the second came and said, 'Your five pounds has made twenty-five, sir.'
19 To him he said, 'And you are set over five towns.'
20 Then the next came and said, 'Here is your five pounds, sir; I kept it safe in a napkin,
21 for I was afraid of you, you are such a hard man — picking up what you never put down, and reaping what you never sowed.'
22 He replied, 'You rascal of a servant, I will convict you by what you have said yourself. You knew, did you, that I was a hard man, picking up what I never put down, and reaping what I never sowed!
23 Why then did you not put my money into the bank, so that I could have got it with interest when I came back?'
24 Then he said to the bystanders, 'Take the five pounds from him and give it to the man with fifty.'
25 'Sir,' they said, 'he has fifty already!'
26 'I tell you, to everyone who has shall more be given, but from him who has nothing, even what he has shall be taken.