Matthew 18:23-25

The Parable of the Unforgiving Servant

²³ "Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who wished _a to settle accounts with his servants. ₁ ²⁴ When he began to settle, one was brought to him who owed him _b ten thousand _c talents. ₂ ²⁵ _d And since he could not pay, his master ordered him _e to be sold, with his wife and _f children and all that he had, and payment to be made.

1. Cross References
   Matthew 25:19
   Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them.
   
2. Cross References
   Esther 3:9
   If it please the king, let it be decreed that they be destroyed, and I will pay 10,000 talents of silver into the hands of those who have charge of the king's business, that they may put it into the king's treasuries.
   
3. Cross References
   Matthew 25:15
   To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away.
   
4. Cross References
   Luke 7:42
   When they could not pay, he cancelled the debt of both. Now which of them will love him more?
   
5. Cross References
   Exodus 21:2
   When you buy a Hebrew slave, he shall serve six years, and in the seventh he shall go out free, for nothing.
   Leviticus 25:39
   If your brother becomes poor beside you and sells himself to you, you shall not make him serve as a slave:
   
6. Cross References
   2 Kings 4:1
   Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried to Elisha, "Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that your servant feared the Lord, but the creditor has come to take my two children to be his slaves.
   Nehemiah 5:5
   Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.