So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart. The application of the parable to the Community Discourse's forgiveness teaching: the heavenly Father will treat the unforgiving disciple as the king treated the unforgiving servant. The from your heart communicates that the forgiveness must be genuine — not merely verbal, not merely procedural, but from the heart. The Community Discourse that began with the question of who is greatest ends with the question of whether those who have been forgiven will forgive.

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