Matthew 25:27 Parallel Translations

then you should have invested my money with the bankers. When I returned, I would have received my money back with interest.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.

ASV:

thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back mine own with interest.

BBE:

Why, then, did you not put my money in the bank, and at my coming I would have got back what is mine with interest?

DBY:

thou oughtest then to have put my money to the money-changers, and when I came I should have got what is mine with interest.

ERV:

thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back mine own with interest.

WEY:

Your duty then was to deposit my money in some bank, and so when I came I should have got back my property with interest.

WBS:

Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received my own with interest.

WEB:

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

YLT:

it behoved thee then to put my money to the money-lenders, and having come I had received mine own with increase.

Matthew 25:27 Cross References

XREF:

Matthew 25:26 "But his master answered and said to him, 'You wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reap where I did not sow and gather where I scattered no seed.

Matthew 25:28 'Therefore take away the talent from him, and give it to the one who has the ten talents.' (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

25:27 Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the {e} exchangers, and [then] at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
(e) Bankers who have their shops or tables set up abroad, where they lend money at interest. Usury or loaning money at interest is strictly forbidden by the Bible, Ex 22:25-27 De 23:19,20. Even a rate as low as one per cent interest was disallowed, Ne 5:11. This servant had already told two lies. First he said the master was an austere or harsh man. This is a lie for the Lord is merciful and gracious. Next he called his master a thief because he reaped where he did not sow. Finally the master said to him sarcastically why did you not add insult to injury and loan the money out at interest so you could call your master a usurer too! If the servant had done this, his master would have been responsible for his servant's actions and guilty of usury.

PNT:

25:27 To the exchangers. To the bankers. If the lord was so exacting as he supposed, he ought at least to have put his money to use with the money brokers that it might have earned something.
Usury. Interest. The Jews were forbidden to take it from their brethren, but were allowed to take it from aliens. See De 23:19,20.

WES:

25:27 Thou oughtest therefore - On that very account, on thy own supposition, to have improved my talent, as far as was possible.

MHC:

25:14-30 Christ keeps no servants to be idle: they have received their all from him, and have nothing they can call their own but sin. Our receiving from Christ is in order to our working for him. The manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. The day of account comes at last. We must all be reckoned with as to what good we have got to our own souls, and have done to others, by the advantages we have enjoyed. It is not meant that the improving of natural powers can entitle a man to Divine grace. It is the real Christian's liberty and privilege to be employed as his Redeemer's servant, in promoting his glory, and the good of his people: the love of Christ constrains him to live no longer to himself, but to Him that died for him, and rose again. Those who think it impossible to please God, and in vain to serve him, will do nothing to purpose in religion. They complain that He requires of them more than they are capable of, and punishes them for what they cannot help. Whatever they may pretend, the fact is, they dislike the character and work of the Lord. The slothful servant is sentenced to be deprived of his talent. This may be applied to the blessings of this life; but rather to the means of grace. Those who know not the day of their visitation, shall have the things that belong to their peace hid from their eyes. His doom is, to be cast into outer darkness. It is a usual way of expressing the miseries of the damned in hell. Here, as in what was said to the faithful servants, our Saviour goes out of the parable into the thing intended by it, and this serves as a key to the whole. Let us not envy sinners, or covet any of their perishing possessions.

CONC:

Arrival Bank Bankers Behoved Deposit Deposited Duty Exchangers Got Increase Interest Invested Money Money-changers Money-lenders Ought Oughtest Property Received Returned Usury

Arrival Bank Behoved Deposit Deposited Duty Exchangers Increase Interest Money Ought Oughtest Property Received Usury

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