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22 Jesus replied, ‘I do not say only seven times. I say you should forgive him 77 times!’[a]

23 Jesus then said, ‘I will tell you a story to show what the kingdom of heaven is like. A king wanted to check how much money his servants should give to him because of their debts. 24 So the king began to check. His men led a servant to him who had a big debt. He must pay back 10,000 gold coins to the king.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. 18:22 Jesus is saying that we must continue to forgive people many, many times.
  2. 18:24 This was a very large amount of money. No man could ever pay all this money to the king.