Matthew 25:27 · World English Bible

You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.
Matthew 25:27 in the World English Bible reads: “You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.”. Read it in the full context of Matthew 25, or compare how other translations render it below.

Matthew 25:27 in Other Translations

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.
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.
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.
YLT it behoved thee then to put my money to the money-lenders, and having come I had received mine own with increase.
WBT Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and [then] at my coming I should have received my own 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.

Commentary on Matthew 25:27

Expositions from classic Bible commentators.

John Gill · Matthew 25:27

Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers,.... "Trapezites", or "tablets", the same whom the Jews (z) call and is the same word which is here used in Munster's Hebrew Gospel; who were so called from the table that stood before them, on which they told, and paid their money, and the exchange and use: hence all the Oriental versions here read, "thou shouldest have put my money to, or on the table"; put it into the hand of these bankers, where it would have been not only safe, as in the earth, where it was hid, but also would have made some increase, and would have been returned with profit,

and then at my coming I should have received my own with usury: this is said not so much to encourage usury, though it may be lawful; and it seems to have been a practice in those times to put money out to use upon a reasonable interest; but to reprove the sloth and inactivity of this servant, upon his own reasonings, and the character he had given of his master,

(z) Maimon. Hilch. Shekalim, c. 1. sect. 9. & c. 2. sect. 1.

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Questions about Matthew 25:27

What does Matthew 25:27 say?

Matthew 25:27 in the World English Bible reads: “You ought therefore to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own with interest.” Read it in the full context of Matthew 25, alongside the classic commentary on this page.

Where is Matthew 25:27 found in the Bible?

Matthew 25:27 is in the book of Matthew, chapter 25, verse 27, in the New Testament.

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