When the king heard about this, he called for the first servant. “You wicked servant,” he said, “I cancelled all that debt of yours because you begged me to.

Fetti’s “Parable of the Unforgiving Servant” is a small oil painting (about 21x17 inches). Fetti was rather productive in painting the parables (see, for example, here ).

It’s the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time and today’s gospel is about the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant that we have already read so many times before. It is in Matt.18: 21-35.

The Unforgiving Servant. By . Published: March 04, 2013 05:00 PM GMT. ... The parable presents a king, an oriental despot, and a “slave”. This is not a domestic servant, but an officer of high rank, ...

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 ...

He suggested that the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant could shed light on the phrase in the Lord’s Prayer, “And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” “These words contain a ...

Today is the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time and once again, today’s gospel reading is the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant, which the Lord Jesus Christ used as his unique way of teaching his ...

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 man to his ...