25. I was afraid I would lose your money, so I hid it in the earth. Look, here is your money back.’
26. “But the master replied, ‘You wicked and lazy servant! If you knew I harvested crops I didn’t plant and gathered crops I didn’t cultivate,
27. why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank? At least I could have gotten some interest on it.’
28. “Then he ordered, ‘Take the money from this servant, and give it to the one with the ten bags of silver.
29. To those who use well what they are given, even more will be given, and they will have an abundance. But from those who do nothing, even what little they have will be taken away.