“Therefore,
the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. As he began
the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold was brought to
him. Since he was not able to pay, the master ordered that he and his wife and
his children and all that he had be sold to repay the debt.
“At
this the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Be patient with me,’ he begged,
‘and I will pay back everything.’ The servant’s master took pity on him,
canceled the debt and let him go.
“But
when that servant went out, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a
hundred silver coins. He grabbed him and began to choke him. ‘Pay back what you
owe me!’ he demanded.
“His
fellow servant fell to his knees and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay it back.’ “But he refused.
Instead, he went off and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay the
debt. When the other servants saw what had happened, they were outraged and
went and told their master everything that had happened. “Then the master
called the servant in. ‘You wicked servant,’ he said, ‘I canceled all that debt
of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn’t you have had mercy on your fellow
servant just as I had on you?’” (Matthew 18:23–33)
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