He said, *Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my bondservant; and you will be blameless.*
Matthew 18:24 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition When he began the accounting, one was brought to him who owed him 10,000 talents [probably about $10,000,000], American Standard Version (1901) And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, that owed him ten thousand talents. Common English Bible When he began to settle accounts, they brought to him a servant who owed him ten thousand bags of gold. Catholic Public Domain Version And when he had begun taking account, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And when he had begun to take the account, one was brought to him, that owed him ten thousand talents. |
He said, *Now also let it be according to your words: he with whom it is found will be my bondservant; and you will be blameless.*
and they gave for the service of the house of God of gold five thousand talents and ten thousand darics, and of silver ten thousand talents, and of brass eighteen thousand talents, and of iron a hundred thousand talents.
and I said, my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to you, my God; for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our guiltiness is grown up to the heavens.
For my iniquities have gone over my head. As a heavy burden, they are too heavy for me.
For innumerable evils have surrounded me. My iniquities have overtaken me, so that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head. My heart has failed me.
Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.
But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability. Then he went on his journey.
Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with them, and made another five talents.
He who received the five talents came and brought another five talents, saying, 'Lord, you delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five talents besides them.'
*He also who got the two talents came and said, 'Lord, you delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents besides them.'
*He also who had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you did not scatter.
Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Shiloach fell, and killed them; do you think that they were worse offenders than all the men who dwell in Yerushalayim?
Calling each one of his lord's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?'
Then said he to another, 'How much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred cors of wheat.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'