The Lord answered,
‘You wicked and lazy servant, you knew that I reaped where I did not sow and gathered where I had not scattered, you should have put the talent into the bank to make interest.
Take this wicked servant away and give what he had to the first servant who has the ten talents.
For the one who has will be given more and he will have an abundance.
But the one who does not have, even the little he has will be taken away.
He cast the unprofitable servant into outer darkness, where there was weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
“When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, he will sit on the throne of glory and gather the nations before him.
He will separate them one from another, like a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats.
He will put the sheep on one side and the goats on the other side.
Then the King will say to the ones on his right side,
Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you since the beginning of the world.
I was hungry and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. I was naked and you clothed me. I was sick and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came to me.
Then the righteous will answer him, saying,
‘Lord, when were you hungry and we fed you? Or thirsty and we gave you drink? When did we see you as a stranger and take you in? Or naked and cloth you? And when did we see you sick or in prison and come to you?’
The King answered,
“Here is a truth that you really need to understand, as you did it to the least of my brothers, you did it to me.”
Then the King will say to the ones on his left hand,
“Depart from me, you cursed ones, enter into the fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels.
I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat. I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink. I was a stranger, and you didn’t take me in. I was naked and you didn’t cloth me. I was sick and you didn’t visit me. I was in prison, and you didn’t come to me.
Here is a truth that you tragically missed. As you didn’t do it to the least of my brothers, you didn’t do it to me.
The wicked will go away into eternal punishment. But the righteous will go into eternal life.”
