He told the parable to explain. When the king heard about this, he called for the first servant. “You wicked servant,” he said, “I cancelled all that debt of yours because you begged me to.

That’s the point of today’s Gospel, the parable of the unforgiving servant. (Matthew’s Gospel is replete with parables, and we will hear many for the remainder of this year as we read the ...

Jesus’ Parable of the Unforgiving Servant is in fact the greatest advice ever given on how to survive as a human being in our competitive and divided world. The loutish unforgiving servant ...

Jesus replied that it was necessary to forgive “not seven times but seventy-seven times,” before telling a story known as the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant. Pope Francis noted that in the ...

The parable presents a king, an oriental despot, and a “slave”. This is not a domestic servant, but an officer of high rank, perhaps a viceroy, with enormous sums at his disposal, who has defaulted on ...

It’s the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time and today’s gospel is about the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant that we have already read so many times before. It is in Matt.18: 21-35. “21 Then ...

Today’s Parable of the Unforgiving Servant is a sharp contrast to the equally famous Parable of the Prodigal Son. In that parable, the prodigal son already got his inheritance even if the father ...

Keep in mind that in the parable not every detail is an allegory. God, for example, is not a vengeful king who gives tit for tat. The most significant detail in the story is the difference in the debt ...