21. 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.'
22. 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.
23. And so, why did you not give my money to the bank, so that, upon my return, I might have withdrawn it with interest?'
24. And he said to the bystanders, 'Take the pound away from him, and give it to him who has ten pounds.'
25. And they said to him, 'Lord, he has ten pounds.'
26. 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.
27. 'Yet truly, as for those enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here, and put them to death before me.' "
28. And having said these things, he went ahead, ascending to Jerusalem.
29. And it happened that, when he had drawn near to Bethphage and Bethania, to the mount which is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,
30. saying: "Go into the town which is opposite you. Upon entering it, you will find the colt of a donkey, tied, on which no man has ever sat. Untie it, and lead it here.