22. “He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.
23. Then why didn’t you deposit my money in the bank, and at my coming, I might have earned interest on it?’
24. He said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina away from him, and give it to him who has the ten minas.’
25. “They said to him, ‘Lord, he has ten minas!’
26. ‘For I tell you that to everyone who has, will more be given; but from him who doesn’t have, even that which he has will be taken away from him.
27. But bring those enemies of mine who didn’t want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.’”
28. Having said these things, he went on ahead, going up to Jerusalem.
29. When he came near to Bethsphage and Bethany, at the mountain that is called Olivet, he sent two of his disciples,