18:28-30
The man, now released, went out and found someone who owed him and some money, and forcefully demanded that this man pay him the money. This man fell on his knees and begged for mercy, but the man refused. Now when we retell this tale we often get it wrong. The debt of 100 silver coins, or 100 denarii, was not a trivial amount, it was 100 days wages. The point of the story is not that the man refused to forgive a trivial amount, he refused to forgive a significant amount. But the man had been forgiven a debt of 20 years wages. The point is the enormity of the debt that we had that has been forgiven. We are to forgive people. Sometimes we are really silly and refuse to forgive trivial things, but we also do need to forgive things that are very significant, and we need to remember that we have been forgiven so much more.
18:31-35
The king learnt about the servants behaviour and the man was thrown into jail. Jesus then tells us that this is how our Father in Heaven will treat us if we are unforgiving. We have been forgiven much, so we should be a forgiving people.
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