Matthew 18:28

New English Translation

After he went out, that same slave found one of his fellow slaves who owed him one hundred silver coins. So he grabbed him by the throat and started to choke him, saying, ‘Pay back what you owe me!’

Cross References

Nehemiah 10:31

We will not buy on the Sabbath or on a holy day from the neighboring peoples who bring their wares and all kinds of grain to sell on the Sabbath day. We will let the fields lie fallow every seventh year, and we will cancel every loan.

Nehemiah 5:7

I considered these things carefully and then registered a complaint with the wealthy and the officials. I said to them, “Each one of you is seizing the collateral from your own countrymen!” Because of them I called for a great public assembly.

Proverbs 28:3

A poor person who oppresses the weak is like a driving rain without food.

Isaiah 58:3

They lament, ‘Why don’t you notice when we fast? Why don’t you pay attention when we humble ourselves?’ Look, at the same time you fast, you satisfy your selfish desires, you oppress your workers.

Ezekiel 45:9

“‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: Enough, you princes of Israel! Put away violence and destruction, and do what is just and right. Put an end to your evictions of my people, declares the sovereign Lord.

Matthew 18:27

The lord had compassion on that slave and released him, and forgave him the debt.

Matthew 18:29

Then his fellow slave threw himself down and begged him, ‘Be patient with me, and I will repay you.’

Matthew 20:2

And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage, he sent them into his vineyard.

Mark 14:5

It could have been sold for more than three hundred silver coins and the money given to the poor!” So they spoke angrily to her.

Mark 6:37

But he answered them, “You give them something to eat.” And they said, “Should we go and buy bread for two hundred silver coins and give it to them to eat?”

Luke 10:35

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

Luke 7:41

“A certain creditor had two debtors; one owed him five hundred silver coins, and the other fifty.

John 6:7

Philip replied, “Two hundred silver coins worth of bread would not be enough for them, for each one to get a little.”

Deuteronomy 15:2

This is the nature of the cancellation: Every creditor must remit what he has loaned to another person; he must not force payment from his fellow Israelite, for it is to be recognized as “the Lord’s cancellation of debts.”