Matthew 18:28

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

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!”

Cross References

Nehemiah 10:31

We won't buy goods or grain on the Sabbath or on any other sacred day, not even from foreigners. Every seven years we will let our fields rest, and we will cancel all debts.

Nehemiah 5:7

So I thought it over and said to the leaders and officials, “How can you charge your own people interest?” Then I called a public meeting and accused the leaders

Proverbs 28:3

When someone poor takes over and ill-treats the poor, it's like a heavy rain destroying the crops.

Isaiah 58:3

You wonder why the LORD pays no attention when you go without eating and act humble. But on those same days that you give up eating, you think only of yourselves and abuse your workers.

Ezekiel 45:9

The LORD God said: You leaders of Israel have robbed and cheated my people long enough! I want you to stop sinning and start doing what is right and fair. You must never again force my people off their own land. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Matthew 18:27

The king felt sorry for him and let him go free. He even told the official that he did not have to pay back the money.

Matthew 18:29

The man got down on his knees and began begging, “Have pity on me, and I will pay you back.”

Matthew 20:2

After he had agreed to pay them the usual amount for a day's work, he sent them off to his vineyard.

Mark 14:5

We could have sold this perfume for more than three hundred silver coins and given the money to the poor!” So they started saying cruel things to the woman.

Mark 6:37

Jesus replied, “You give them something to eat.” But they asked him, “Don't you know that it would take almost a year's wages to buy all these people something to eat?”

Luke 10:35

The next morning he gave the innkeeper two silver coins and said, “Please take care of the man. If you spend more than this on him, I will pay you when I return.”

Luke 7:41

Jesus told him, “Two people were in debt to a moneylender. One of them owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other owed him fifty.

John 6:7

Philip answered, “Don't you know that it would take almost a year's wages just to buy only a little bread for each of these people?”