The servant begged for mercy saying, "Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all."
"Then the Lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt." The master not only had pity for the unfortunate debtor, but freed him from prison, let him keep his wife and children, and cancelled the debt.
The Ungrateful Servant.
But that same servant went out and found one of his fellow-servants who owed him a hundred pence, more than ten hundred thousand times less than the first servant had owed his master.
Seizing the fellow-servant by the throat and choking him, he demanded, "Pay me that thou owest."
The fellow-servant fell down at his feet and begged for mercy, "Have patience with me and I will pay thee all."
But the unforgiving, merciless servant refusing to give pity, "went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt."
So when the Lord heard how the servant whom he had forgiven had treated his fellow-servant, he called that servant back, and said:
"O thou wicked servant! I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me; should not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow-servant, even as I had pity on thee?"
This unforgiving servant was then told to pay the ten thousand talents, and was delivered over to the "tormentors" until it was all paid.