21. The master answered, ‘You did well. You are a good servant who can be trusted. You did well with small things. So I will let you care for much greater things. Come and share my happiness with me.’
22. “Then the servant who got two bags of money came to the master. The servant said, ‘Master, you gave me two bags of money to care for. So I used your two bags to earn two more.’
23. The master answered, ‘You did well. You are a good servant who can be trusted. You did well with small things. So I will let you care for much greater things. Come and share my happiness with me.’
24. “Then the servant who got one bag of money came to the master. The servant said, ‘Master, I knew that you were a hard man. You harvest things you did not plant. You gather crops where you did not sow any seed.
25. So I was afraid. I went and hid your money in the ground. Here is the bag of money you gave me.’
26. The master answered, ‘You are a bad 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 money in the bank. Then, when I came home, I would get my money back with interest.’
28. “So the master told his other servants, ‘Take the bag of money from that servant and give it to the servant who has ten bags of money.
29. Everyone who uses what he has will get more. He will have much more than he needs. But the one who does not use what he has will have everything taken away from him.’
30. Then the master said, ‘Throw that useless servant outside, into the darkness! There people will cry and grind their teeth with pain.’
31. “The Son of Man will come again in his great glory. All his angels will come with him. He will be King and sit on his great throne.
32. All the people of the world will be gathered before him. Then he will separate them into two groups as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
33. The Son of Man will put the sheep, the good people, on his right and the goats, the bad people, on his left.
34. “Then the King will say to the good people on his right, ‘Come. My Father has given you his blessing. Come and receive the kingdom God has prepared for you since the world was made.
35. I was hungry, and you gave me food. I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink. I was alone and away from home, and you invited me into your house.