Matthew 18:30-32

The Voice

³⁰ But the first slave cackled and was hard-hearted and refused to hear his friend’s plea. He found a magistrate and had his friend thrown into prison “where,” he said, “you will sit until you can pay me back.” ³¹ The other servants saw what was going on. They were upset, so they went to the king and told him everything that had happened.

³² The king summoned the slave, the one who had owed so much money, the one whose debt the king had forgiven. The king was livid. “You slovenly scum,” he said, seething with anger. “You begged me to forgive your debt, and I did.