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Then one by one he called in the people who were in debt to his master. He asked the first one, “How much do you owe my master?”

“A hundred barrels of olive oil,” the man answered.

So the manager said, “Take your bill and sit down and quickly write ‘50.’ ”

The manager asked someone else who was in debt to his master, “How much do you owe?”

“A thousand sacks[a] of wheat,” the man replied.

The manager said, “Take your bill and write ‘800.’ ”

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Footnotes

  1. 16.7 A thousand sacks: The Greek text has “100 measures,” and each measure is about 10 or 12 sacks.

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