22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven![a]

23 “For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man—a king—who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves. 24 And when[b] he began to settle them,[c] someone was brought to him who owed ten thousand talents.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 18:22 Or “seventy-seven times”
  2. Matthew 18:24 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“began”)
  3. Matthew 18:24 *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation