Then one by one he called in the people who were in debt to his master. He asked the first one, “How much do you owe my master?”
As he was doing this, one official was brought in who owed him fifty million silver coins.
As the official was leaving, he happened to meet another official, who owed him a hundred silver coins. So he grabbed the man by the throat. He started choking him and said, “Pay me what you owe!”
Forgive us for doing wrong, as we forgive others.
I know what I'll do, so that people will welcome me into their homes after I've lost my job.”
“A hundred barrels of olive oil,” the man answered. So the manager said, “Take your bill and sit down and quickly write ‘fifty’.”