{And hid} (kai ekrupsen). Not necessarily bad morality.
"He may have hid it to prevent it being stolen, or to prevent
himself from being anticipated in buying a field" (Plummer). But
if it was a piece of sharp practice, that is not the point of the
parable. That is, the enormous wealth of the Kingdom for which
any sacrifice, all that one has, is not too great a price to pay.