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Matthew 18:24
Matthew 18:24 is verse 24 of Matthew chapter 18, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
As he began the settlements, a debtor was brought to him owing ten thousand talents.
A talent was worth about twenty years’ wages for a laborer.
King James Version
And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.
World English Bible
When he had begun to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
Ten thousand talents (about 300 metric tons of silver) represents an extremely large sum of money, equivalent to about 60,000,000 denarii, where one denarius was typical of one day’s wages for agricultural labor.
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Matthew 18:22–26 · Berean Standard Bible
22 Jesus answered, “I tell you, not just seven times, but seventy-seven times!
23 Because of this, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants.
24 As he began the settlements, a debtor was brought to him owing ten thousand talents.
25 Since the man was unable to pay, the master ordered that he be sold to pay his debt, along with his wife and children and everything he owned.
26 Then the servant fell on his knees before him. ‘Have patience with me,’ he begged, ‘and I will pay back everything.’
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Luke 7:41“Two men were debtors to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.
Luke 7:42When they were unable to repay him, he forgave both of them. Which one, then, will love him more?”
Luke 13:4Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?
Luke 16:5And he called in each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first.
Luke 16:7Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take your bill and write eighty,’ he told him.
1 Chronicles 29:7Toward the service of God’s house they gave 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze, and 100,000 talents of iron.
Ezra 9:6and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
Psalms 38:4For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
Psalms 40:12For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
Psalms 130:3If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand?
Psalms 130:4But with You there is forgiveness, so that You may be feared.