Matthew 18:28
Good News Translation
"Then the man went out and met one of his fellow servants who owed him a few dollars. He grabbed him and started choking him. 'Pay back what you owe me!' he said.

New Revised Standard Version
But that same slave, as he went out, came upon one of his fellow slaves who owed him a hundred denarii; and seizing him by the throat, he said, ‘Pay what you owe.’

Contemporary English Version
But as this official was leaving, he happened to meet another official, who owed him 100 silver coins. So he grabbed the man by the throat. He started choking him and said, "Pay me what you owe!"

New American Bible
When that servant had left, he found one of his fellow servants who owed him a much smaller amount. He seized him and started to choke him, demanding, ‘Pay back what you owe.’

Douay-Rheims Bible
But when that servant was gone out, he found one of his fellow-servants that owed him an hundred pence: and laying hold of him, he throttled him, saying: Pay what thou owest.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But when that servant was gone out, he found one of his fellow-servants that owed him an hundred pence: and laying hold of him, he throttled him, saying: Pay what thou owest.

an hundred.

Matthew 18:3 And said: amen I say to you, unless you be converted, and become as little children, you shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

? .2s .6d. English; which was not one six hundred thousandth part of the

10,000 talents, even calculating them as Roman talents.

pence.

Matthew 20:2 And having agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

and took.

Deuteronomy 15:2 Which shall be celebrated in this order. He to whom any thing is owing from his friend or neighbour or brother, cannot demand it again, because it is the year of remission of the Lord.

Nehemiah 5:7,10,11 And my heart thought with myself: and I rebuked the nobles and magistrates, and said to them: Do you every one exact usury of your brethren? And I gathered together a great assembly against them, . . .

Nehemiah 10:31 And if the people of the land bring in things to sell, or any things for use, to sell them on the sabbath day, that we would not buy them on the sabbath, or on the holy day. And that we would leave the seventh year, and the exaction of every hand.

Isaiah 58:3 Why have we fasted, and thou hast not regarded: have we humbled our souls, and thou hast not taken notice? Behold in the day of your fast your own will is found, and you exact of all your debtors.

Ezekiel 45:9 Thus saith the Lord God: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: cease from iniquity and robberies, and execute judgment and justice, separate your confines from my people, saith the Lord God.

Context
The Unforgiving Servant
27And the lord of that servant being moved with pity, let him go and forgave him the debt. 28But when that servant was gone out, he found one of his fellow-servants that owed him an hundred pence: and laying hold of him, he throttled him, saying: Pay what thou owest. 29And his fellow-servant falling down, besought him, saying: Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.…
Cross References
Proverbs 28:3
A poor man that oppresseth the poor, is like a violent shower, which bringeth a famine.

Matthew 18:27
And the lord of that servant being moved with pity, let him go and forgave him the debt.

Matthew 18:29
And his fellow-servant falling down, besought him, saying: Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

Mark 6:37
And he answering said to them: Give you them to eat. And they said to him: Let us go and buy bread for two hundred pence, and we will give them to eat.

Mark 14:5
For this ointment might have been sold for more than three hundred pence and given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

Luke 7:41
A certain creditor had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence and the other fifty.

Luke 10:35
And the next day he took out two pence and gave to the host and said: Take care of him; and whatsoever thou shalt spend over and above, I, at my return, will repay thee.

John 6:7
Philip answered him: Two hundred pennyworth of bread is not sufficient for them that every one may take a little.

Matthew 18:27
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