Text -- Luke 19:22 (NET)

19:22 The king said to him, ‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow?

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Luk 19:22

¹ tn Grk “He”; the referent (the nobleman of v. 12, now a king) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

² tn Grk “out of your own mouth” (an idiom).

³ tn Note the contrast between this slave, described as “wicked,” and the slave in v. 17, described as “good.”

⁴ tn Or “exacting,” “harsh,” “hard.”