Keep in mind that in the parable not every detail is an allegory. God, for example, is not a vengeful king who gives tit for tat. The most significant detail in the story is the difference in the debt ...

In the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant (Matthew 18:21-35), a servant who fails to pay a debt of $100,000 (according to the Message version of the Bible) begs his master for forgiveness, which, ...

Pastor Keller (Hope in Times of Fear) delivers a thorough and eloquent apologetic for forgiveness. Keller anchors his study in the Christian parable of the unforgiving servant, in which a king ...

This parable, peculiar to Matthew, is one of the sternest passages in the Gospel. It reinforces the duty of forgiveness by appealing to another motive. The measure of mercy shown by one man to his ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You don’t have to be a Christian to appreciate the Kafkaesque irony of Matthew 18:21–35. A king who had loaned one of his best ...