“You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Matthew 25 contains 46 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.