Matthew 18:21-25

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

21 Then Peter came up and said to him, “Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?” 22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven.[1]

23 “Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished to settle accounts with his servants.[2] 24 When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.[3] 25 And since he could not pay, his master ordered him to be sold, with his wife and children and all that he had, and payment to be made.

Footnotes

  1. Or seventy-seven times
  2. Greek bondservants; also verses 28, 31
  3. A talent was a monetary unit worth about twenty years' wages for a laborer

Return to Matthew 18.

Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service.