Luke 19:21-22

19:21 For I was afraid of you, because you are a severe ¹  man. You withdraw ²  what you did not deposit ³  and reap what you did not sow.’ 19:22 The king ⁴  said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, ⁵  you wicked slave! ⁶  So you knew, did you, that I was a severe ⁷  man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow?

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¹ tn Or “exacting,” “harsh,” “hard.”

² tn Grk “man, taking out.” The Greek word can refer to withdrawing money from a bank (L&N 57.218), and in this context of financial accountability that is the most probable meaning. Because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, a new sentence was started here in the translation by supplying the pronoun “you” as subject and translating the participle αἴρεις (airei") as a finite verb.

³ tn The Greek verb τίθημι (tiqhmi) can be used of depositing money with a banker to earn interest (L&N 57.217). In effect the slave charges that the master takes what he has not earned.

⁴ tn Grk “He”; the referent (the nobleman of v. 12, now a king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

⁵ tn Grk “out of your own mouth” (an idiom).

⁶ tn Note the contrast between this slave, described as “wicked,” and the slave in v. 17, described as “good.”

⁷ tn Or “exacting,” “harsh,” “hard.”