25. So I was afraid and went and hid your money in the ground. Here is your bag of gold.’
26. The master answered, ‘You are a wicked and lazy servant! You say you knew that I harvest things I did not plant and that I gather crops where I did not sow any seed.
27. So you should have put my gold in the bank. Then, when I came home, I would have received my gold back with interest.’
28. “So the master told his other servants, ‘Take the bag of gold from that servant and give it to the servant who has ten bags of gold.
29. Those who have much will get more, and they will have much more than they need. But those who do not have much will have everything taken away from them.’
30. Then the master said, ‘Throw that useless servant outside, into the darkness where people will cry and grind their teeth with pain.’