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 parable of the unforgiving servant (Matthew 18:21-35) Peter had a question for Jesus about forgiveness, “Lord, how many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me?

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).

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 ...

Few biblical characters get more scorn than “the Unforgiving Servant,” who asks for help from a superior, but denies it to a lower-ranked servant.

Matthew’s other use of this unit of measurement, in the parable of the Unforgiving Servant, provides a key to his thinking.

Jesus’ Parable of the Unforgiving Servant is in fact the greatest advice ever given on how to survive as a human being in our competitive and divided world.

Jesus replied that it was necessary to forgive “not seven times but seventy-seven times,” before telling a story known as the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant.

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 ...

The parable presents a “king”, an oriental despot, and a “slave”, not a domestic but an officer of high rank, perhaps a viceroy, with enormous sums at his disposal, who has defaulted on the payment of ...