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Luke 19:21 KJV
Luke · chapter 19 · verse 21
For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.Luke 19:21 · King James Version
Luke 19:21 in context
19And he said likewise to him, Be thou also over five cities.
20And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:
21For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.
22And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:
23Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- austereaustērosof mind and manners harsh, rough, rigidG840 →
- layedsttithēmito set, put, place, to place or lay, to put down, lay down, to bend down, to lay off or…G5087 →
- reapesttherizōto reap, harvest, proverbial expression for sowing and reaping, cut off, destroy, as…G2325 →
- fearedphobeōto put to flight by terrifying , to put to flight, to flee, to fear, be afraid, to be…G5399 →
- didstspeirōto sow, scatter, seed, metaph. of proverbial sayingsG4687 →
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Our Lord Jesus is now upon his way to Jerusalem, to his last passover, when he was to suffer and die; now here we are told, I. How the expectations of his friends were raised upon this occasion: They thought that the kingdom of God would immediately appear, Luk 19:11.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 11-27