⁵ “So he called in each one of his master’s debtors. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

⁴¹ “Two people owed money to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii,^[a] and the other fifty. ⁴² Neither of them had the money to pay him back, so he forgave the debts of both. Now which of them will love him more?”

²⁴ As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold^[a] was brought to him.