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).

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.

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 ...

Phillip David a.k.a the Hood Picasso has an amazing story about why he started designing clothes. It started with the loss of his parents, and he grew it into ...

Keller anchors his study in the Christian parable of the unforgiving servant, in which a king forgives the debt of a servant who later refuses to remit a smaller debt owed to him by another ...

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

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.

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 ...