Thematic Bible: Were often defrauded
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All those who were in trouble or owed someone money or were discontented gathered around him, and he became their leader. He had about four hundred men with him.
So he contacted his master's debtors one by one. He asked the first, 'How much do you owe my master?' The man replied, 'A hundred measures of olive oil.' The manager said to him, 'Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.' Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' The second man replied, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' The manager said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'