Thematic Bible: Sometimes entirely remitted debts
Thematic Bible
Creditors » Sometimes entirely remitted debts
Even I and my servants have been taking interest for the money and the grain we have let them have. So now, let us give up this thing. Give back to them this very day their fields, their vine-gardens, their olive-gardens, and their houses, as well as a hundredth part of the money and the grain and the wine and the oil which you have taken from them. Then they said, We will give them back, and take nothing for them; we will do as you say. Then I sent for the priests and made them take an oath that they would keep this agreement.
And the lord of that servant, being moved with pity, let him go, and made him free of the debt.
When they were unable to make payment, he made the two of them free of their debts. Which of them, now, will have the greater love for him?