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

What man of you, having a hundred sheep, and having lost one of them, does not leave the ninety and nine in the desert, and go after the lost one, until he may find it?

And he said; A hundred measures of oil. And he said to him, Take your accounts, and sitting down quickly write fifty.

Then he said to another one, And how much do you owe? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. He says to him, Take your account, and write fourscore.