20 “And another came, saying, ‘Master, here is your mina, which I kept laid up in a handkerchief.
21 ‘For I was afraid of you, because you are a hard man. You take up what you did not lay down, and reap what you did not sow.’
22 “And he said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth I shall judge you, you wicked servant. You knew that I was a hard man, taking up what I did not lay down and reaping what I did not sow.
23 ‘Why did you not put the silver in the bank, that when I come I could have collected it with interest?’
24 “Then he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the mina from him, and give it to him who possesses ten minas.’
25 “But they said to him, ‘Master, he already possesses ten minas.’
26 ‘For I say to you, that to everyone who possesses shall be given; and from him who does not possess, even what he possesses shall be taken away from him.