21. For I feared you, because you are an exacting man. You collect what you did not deposit, and reap what you did not sow.’
22. “He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was an exacting man, collecting what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow.
23. Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, so that at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’
24. “Then he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the pound from him and give it to him who has ten pounds.’
25. “They said to him, ‘Master, he has ten pounds.’
26. “ ‘I tell you that to everyone who has will be given. But from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away from him.
27. But as for those enemies of mine, who would not let me reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.’ ”
28. When He had said this, He went before them, ascending up to Jerusalem.
29. When He came near to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mountain called the Mount of Olives, He sent two of His disciples,
30. saying, “Go over into the village opposite you, where, as you enter, you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever yet sat. Untie it and bring it here.
31. If anyone asks you, ‘Why are you untying it?’ you shall say to him, ‘Because the Lord has need of it.’ ”