"He will utterly destroy those wretches," they answered, "and will entrust his vineyard to other vine-dressers, who will pay back the fruits to him in their season."

Then you ought to have deposited my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my property with interest.

"'Then why did you not put my money into the bank, so that at my coming I might I might have gotten it back with interest?'

It is in your own interest that I say this; not that I may entangle you in a snare, but that I may help you to serve the Lord with fitting and undistracted service.

For I can testify to his deep interest in you and in those in Laodicea and Hierapolis.