⁵⁹ I tell you, you will not get out until you have paid the last penny.”^(A)

⁴² But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.

³⁴ In anger his master handed him over to the jailers to be tortured, until he should pay back all he owed.

Thanksgiving and Prayer

³ We ought always to thank God for you,^(A) brothers and sisters,^[a] and rightly so, because your faith is growing more and more, and the love all of you have for one another is increasing.^(B)

²⁶ And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm has been set in place, so that those who want to go from here to you cannot, nor can anyone cross over from there to us.’