Luke 19:22-23

19:22 The king ¹  said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, ²  you wicked slave! ³  So you knew, did you, that I was a severe ⁴  man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow? 19:23 Why then didn’t you put ⁵  my money in the bank, ⁶  so that when I returned I could have collected it with interest?’

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¹ tn Grk “He”; the referent (the nobleman of v. 12, now a king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Grk “out of your own mouth” (an idiom).

³ tn Note the contrast between this slave, described as “wicked,” and the slave in v. 17, described as “good.”

⁴ tn Or “exacting,” “harsh,” “hard.”

⁵ tn That is, “If you really feared me why did you not do a minimum to get what I asked for?”

⁶ tn Grk “on the table”; the idiom refers to a place where money is kept or managed, or credit is established, thus “bank” (L&N 57.215).