18. Then the second one came and said, ‘Sir, your mina has made five minas.’
19. So the king said to him, ‘And you are to be over five cities.’
20. Then another slave came and said, ‘Sir, here is your mina that I put away for safekeeping in a piece of cloth.
21. For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe man. You withdraw what you did not deposit and reap what you did not sow.’
22. The king said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow?
23. Why then didn’t you put my money in the bank, so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’
24. And he said to his attendants, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to the one who has ten.’