23. Why then did you not deposit my money in the bank, so that at my coming I might have collected it with interest?’
24. “Then he said to those who stood by, ‘Take the pound from him and give it to him who has ten pounds.’
25. “They said to him, ‘Master, he has ten pounds.’
26. “ ‘I tell you that to everyone who has will be given. But from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away from him.
27. But as for those enemies of mine, who would not let me reign over them, bring them here and slay them before me.’ ”
28. When He had said this, He went before them, ascending up to Jerusalem.