So the servant fell on his knees, imploring him, have patience with me, and I will pay you everything. The servant's prostration and desperate plea — have patience, I will pay everything — is the response to the impossibility: he claims he can repay the unpayable if given time. The claim is not realistic but the plea is genuine. The falling on his knees communicates the posture of desperate dependence.

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