There were two debtors to a certain creditor, the one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave behind the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go for that which was lost until he finds it?

And he said, A hundred measures of olive oil. And he said to him, Receive thy document, and having sat down, quickly write fifty.

Next he said to another, And how much do thou owe? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. And he says to him, Receive thy document, and write eighty.