Catholic Public Domain Version
"And so, why did you not give my money to the bank, so that, upon my return, I might have withdrawn it with interest?’ "
— Luke 19:23, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?”
“then wherefore gavest thou not my money into the bank, and I at my coming should have required it with interest? ”
“Then why didn't you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?'”
“Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’”
“And why then didst thou not give my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have exacted it with usury?”
“Why then did you not put my money in a bank, so that when I came I would get it back with interest?”
“Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?”
And another approached, saying: ‘Lord, behold your one pound, which I kept stored in a cloth.
For I feared you, because you are an austere man. You take up what you did not lay down, and you reap what you did not sow.’
He said to him: ‘By your own mouth, do I judge you, O wicked servant. You knew that I am an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow.
And so, why did you not give my money to the bank, so that, upon my return, I might have withdrawn it with interest?’
And he said to the bystanders, ‘Take the pound away from him, and give it to him who has ten pounds.’
And they said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten pounds.’
So then, I say to you, that to all who have, it shall be given, and he will have in abundance. And from him who does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.