World English Bible

Matthew 25:27

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

Verse in context — Matthew 25

I was afraid, and went away and hid your talent in the earth. Behold, you have what is yours.

But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.

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

Take away therefore the talent from him, and give it to him who has the ten talents.

For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who doesn't have, even that which he has will be taken away.

Jesus as the promised Messiah, fulfilling Old Testament prophecy.