Matthew 18:24

Easy To Read Version

The king began to collect his money. One servant owed the king several thousand pounds of silver.

Cross References

Genesis 44:10

The servant said, “We will do as you say. {But I will not kill the man.} If I find the silver cup, then that man will be my slave. The others will be free.”

1 Chronicles 29:7

These are the things they gave for God’s house: 190 tons {\cf2\super [318]} of gold; 375 tons {\cf2\super [319]} of silver; 675 tons {\cf2\super [320]} of bronze; and 3,750 tons {\cf2\super [321]} of iron.

Ezra 9:6

Then I prayed this prayer:

Psalm 38:4

I am guilty of doing bad things.\par And that guilt is like a heavy weight.\par \{I am too ashamed\} to hold my head up.\par

Psalm 40:12

Evil people have gathered around me.\par They are too many to count!\par My sins have caught me,\par and I can’t escape them.\par They are more than the hairs on my head.\par I have lost my courage.\par

Matthew 18:23

“So the kingdom of heaven is like a king that decided to collect the money that his servants owed him.

Matthew 18:25

The servant was not able to pay the money to his master, the king. So the master ordered that everything the servant owned should be sold, even the servant’s wife and children. The money would be used to pay the king what the servant owed.

Matthew 25:15

He decided how much each servant would be able to care for. The man gave one servant five bags of money. {\cf2\super [387]} He gave another servant two bags of money. And he gave a third servant one bag of money. Then that man left.

Matthew 25:16

The servant that got five bags of money went quickly to invest the money. Those five bags of money earned five more.

Matthew 25:20

The servant that got five bags of money brought five more bags of money to the master. The servant said, ‘Master, you trusted me to care for five bags of money. So I used your five bags of money to earn five more.’

Matthew 25:22

“Then the servant that got two bags of money came to the master. The servant said, ‘Master, you gave me two bags of money to care for. So I used your two bags of money to earn two more.’

Matthew 25:24

“Then the servant that got one bag of money came to the master. The servant said, ‘Master, I knew that you were a very hard man. You harvest things you did not plant. You gather crops where you did not put any seed.

Luke 13:4

What about those 18 people that died when the tower of Siloam fell on them? Do you think those people were more sinful than all the people that live in Jerusalem?

Luke 16:5

So the manager called in each person that owed the master some money. He said to the first man, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

Luke 16:7

Then the manager said to another man, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ The man answered, ‘I owe him 60,000 pounds of wheat.’ Then the manager said to him, ‘Here is your bill; you can make it less. Write 50,000 pounds.’