Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?
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Gill's Exposition
And he said unto them that stood by,.... The angels, it may be; though this may not be strictly taken, as if any persons, angels, or men, will be employed in what follows, only that it will be done,…
Barnes' Notes
The bank - The treasury, or the place of exchange. Why did you not loan it out, that it might be increased? Usury - Interest.
Adam Clarke
With usury? - Συν τοκῳ, With its produce, i.e. what the loan of the money is fairly worth, after paying the person sufficiently for using it: for, in lent money, both the lender and borrower are…
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…
Cambridge Bible
into the bank Rather, into a bank. The Greek word for -bank" is trapeza(-a table"); hence a banker is trapezites.This touch contains the germ of the unrecorded saying (agraphon dogma)of our Lord,…