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.

Cross References

Nehemiah 10:31

If foreigners bring grain or anything else to sell to us on the Sabbath or on any other holy day, we will not buy from them. Every seventh year we will not farm the land, and we will cancel all debts.

Nehemiah 5:7

and decided to act. I denounced the leaders and officials of the people and told them, “You are oppressing your own relatives!” I called a public assembly to deal with the problem

Proverbs 28:3

Someone in authority who oppresses poor people is like a driving rain that destroys the crops.

Isaiah 58:3

The people ask, “Why should we fast if the Lord never notices? Why should we go without food if he pays no attention?” The Lord says to them, “The truth is that at the same time you fast, you pursue your own interests and oppress your workers.

Ezekiel 45:9

The Sovereign Lord said, “You have sinned too long, you rulers of Israel! Stop your violence and oppression. Do what is right and just. You must never again drive my people off their land. I, the Sovereign Lord, am telling you this.

Matthew 18:27

The king felt sorry for him, so he forgave him the debt and let him go.

Matthew 18:29

His fellow servant fell down and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will pay you back!’

Matthew 20:2

He agreed to pay them the regular wage, a silver coin a day, and sent them to work in his vineyard.

Mark 14:5

It could have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor!” And they criticized her harshly.

Mark 6:37

“You yourselves give them something to eat,” Jesus answered. They asked, “Do you want us to go and spend two hundred silver coins on bread in order to feed them?”

Luke 10:35

The next day he took out two silver coins and gave them to the innkeeper. ‘Take care of him,’ he told the innkeeper, ‘and when I come back this way, I will pay you whatever else you spend on him.’”

Luke 7:41

“There were two men who owed money to a moneylender,” Jesus began. “One owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other owed him fifty.

John 6:7

Philip answered, “For everyone to have even a little, it would take more than two hundred silver coins to buy enough bread.”

Deuteronomy 15:2

This is how it is to be done. Each of you who has lent money to any Israelite is to cancel the debt; you must not try to collect the money; the Lord himself has declared the debt canceled.