Matthew 25:26 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 25:26

‘You wicked, lazy servant!’ replied his master. ‘You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But his lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I did not scatter;

KJV

His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

But what he thought would be his excuse is turned into his condemnation. He calls him wicked servant, because he cavilled against his Lord; and slothful, because he would not double his talent; condemning his pride in the one, and his idleness in the other. If you knew me to be hard and austere, and to seek after other men's goods, you should also have known that I exact with the more rigour that is mine own, and should have given my money to the bankers; for the Greek word here (ἀζγύριον) means money.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Slothful - Indolent, lazy, who had done nothing. God will judge people not merely for doing wrong, but for not “doing” right. See Mat 25:45. That servant was “wicked,” because he had such an opinion of his master; he had shown that he was slothful by not making good use of the talent, Mat 25:27. Thou knewest ... - This should be understood, and might have been translated, as a question. If you knew that I was Such a man you ought to have acted accordingly, so as to have escaped punishment. Didst thou know that I reap, etc.?

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

The parable of the talents which we have now read is near akin to that of the ten virgins. Both direct our minds to the same important event: the second advent of Jesus Christ. Both bring before us the same persons: the members of the professing church of Christ. The virgins and the servants are one and the same people—but the same people regarded from a different point, and viewed on different sides. The practical lesson of each parable is the main point of difference: vigilance is the keynote of the first parable, diligence that of the second.

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἀποκριθεὶς	apokritheis	answering	G611 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
κύριος	kurios	master	G2962 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	of him	G846 →
εἶπεν	eipen	said	G2036 →
αὐτῷ·	autō	to him;	G846 →
πονηρὲ	ponēre	Wicked	G4190 →
δοῦλε	doule	servant	G1401 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
ὀκνηρέ,	oknēre	lazy!	G3636 →
ᾔδεις	ēdeis	You knew	G1492 →
ὅτι	hoti	that	G3754 →
θερίζω	therizō	I reap	G2325 →
ὅπου	hopou	where	G3699 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἔσπειρα	espeira	I sowed	G4687 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
συνάγω	sunagō	I gather	G4863 →
ὅθεν	hothen	from where	G3606 →
οὐ	ou	not	G3756 →
διεσκόρπισα;	dieskorpisa	I scattered?	G1287 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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Matthew 18:32
Then the master summoned him and declared, ‘You wicked servant! I forgave all your debt because you begged me.
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- Luke 19:22
  His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did…
- Romans 3:19
  Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.