MATTHEW 18:32 — KING JAMES VERSION 0 0
“Then his lord, after that he had called him, said unto him, O thou wicked servant, I forgave thee all that debt, because thou desiredst me:”
Then his master summoned him and said to him: you wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded with me. The master's characterization of the first servant as wicked and the explanation of the forgiveness — I forgave you all that debt because you pleaded — communicates the fundamental injustice of the behavior. The wickedness is not that the servant demanded payment but that he demanded it from someone after being forgiven an impossibly larger amount.
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