The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant is a parable of Jesus which appears in the Gospel of Matthew. According to Matthew 18:21–35 it is important to forgive others as we are forgiven by God, as illus
This depiction of the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant on a stained glass window in Scots' Church, Melbourne shows the initial forgiving of the debt, and the final punishment of the unforgiving servant.
This depiction by Domenico Fetti (c. 1620) shows the unforgiving servant choking the other debtor.
This depiction by Jan van Hemessen (c. 1556) shows the moment when the king scolds the servant.
Claude Vignon, Parable of the Unforgiving Servant
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The talent was a unit of weight used in the ancient world, often used for weighing gold and silver.
Parable of the Unforgiving Servant
…The lines before the parable itself are similar to Luke 17:3–4. The talent in this parable was worth about 6,000 denarii, so that one debt is 600,000 times as large as the other. More significantly, 10,000 (a myriad) was the…
Sumerian tablet with measurement glyphs