²⁴ When he began the reckoning, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him,

⁵ So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

⁴ Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the other people living in Jerusalem?^(A)

⁶ and said,

“O my God, I am too ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.^(A)

⁷ Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He replied, ‘A hundred containers of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill and make it eighty.’

⁴¹ “A certain moneylender had two debtors; one owed five hundred denarii, and the other fifty.^{(A) 42} When they could not pay, he canceled the debts for both of them. Now which of them will love him more?”

⁷ They gave for the service of the house of God five thousand talents and ten thousand darics of gold, ten thousand talents of silver, eighteen thousand talents of bronze, and one hundred thousand talents of iron.^(A)