Matthew 18:28-30

The Voice

²⁸ But the slave went and found a friend, another slave, who owed him about a hundred days’ wages.^[a] “Pay me back that money,” shouted the slave, throttling his friend and shaking him with threats and violence. ²⁹ The slave’s friend fell down prostrate and begged for mercy: “Have mercy on me, and I will somehow pay you everything.” ³⁰ But the first slave cackled and was hard-hearted and refused to hear his friend’s plea. He found a magistrate and had his friend thrown into prison “where,” he said, “you will sit until you can pay me back.”