018:023 "For this reason the Kingdom of the Heavens may be compared to a king who determined to have a settlement of accounts with his servants.
018:024 But as soon as he began the settlement, one was brought before him who owed 10,000 talents,
018:025 and was unable to pay. So his master ordered that he and his
wife and children and everything that he had should be sold,
and payment be made.
018:026 The servant therefore falling down, prostrated himself at
his feet and entreated him. "`Only give me time,' he said,
`and I will pay you the whole.'
018:027 "Whereupon his master, touched with compassion, set him free and forgave him the debt.
018:028 But no sooner had that servant gone out, than he met with one of his fellow servants who owed him 100 shillings; and seizing him by the throat and nearly strangling him he exclaimed, "`Pay me all you owe.'
018:029 "His fellow servant therefore fell at his feet and entreated him,
"`Only give me time,' he said, `and I will pay you.'
018:030 "He would not, however, but went and threw him into prison
until he should pay what was due.
018:031 His fellow servants, therefore, seeing what had happened, were exceedingly angry; and they came and told their master without reserve all that had happened.
018:032 At once his master called him and said, "`Wicked servant,
I forgave you all that debt, because you entreated me: