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 ...

But remember the biblical story, where the master puts the servant in jail for his unforgiving acts. We, the voters, are the master, and Trump, Cruz and Kasich are literally public servants.

Keller anchors his study in the Christian parable of the unforgiving servant, in which a king forgives the debt of a servant who later refuses to remit a smaller debt owed to him by another ...

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 ...

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 ...

The most significant detail in the story is the difference in the debt owed by the merciless servant and the debt that he claims from another. If the norm is the forgiveness of God which knows no ...

Today is the 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time and once again, today’s gospel reading is the Parable of the Unforgiving Servant, which the Lord Jesus Christ used as his unique way of teaching his ...