Matthew 18:30 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 18:30

But he refused. Instead, he went and had the man thrown into prison until he could pay his debt.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay that which was due.

KJV

And he would not: but went and cast him into prison, till he should pay the debt.

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Commentary

2 voices

Origen of Alexandria

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (253)

Observe the exactness of Scripture; the servant who owed many talents fell down, and worshipped the king; he who owed the hundred denarii falling down, did not worship, but besought his fellow servant, saying, Have patience. But the ungrateful servant did not even respect the very words which had saved himself, for it follows, but he would not.

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The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

And he would not, etc. - To the unmerciful, God will show no mercy; this is an eternal purpose of the Lord, which never can be changed. God teaches us what to do to a fellow-sinner, by what He does to us. Our fellow-servant’s debt to us, and ours to God, are as one hundred denarii to ten thousand talents! When we humble ourselves before him, God freely forgives us all this mighty sum! And shall we exact from our brother recompense for the most trifling faults?

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

In these verses the Lord Jesus deals with a deeply important subject, the forgiveness of injuries. We live in a wicked world, and it is vain to expect that we can escape ill-treatment, however carefully we may behave. To know how to conduct ourselves when we are ill-treated is of great moment to our souls. In the first place, the Lord Jesus lays it down as a general rule that we ought to forgive others to the uttermost. Peter put the question, “How oft shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Till seven times?”

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	But	G1161 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἤθελεν,	ēthelen	he was willing,	G2309 →
ἀλλ᾽	all᾽	but	G235 →
ἀπελθὼν	apelthōn	having gone	G565 →
ἔβαλεν	ebalen	he cast	G906 →
αὐτὸν	auton	him	G846 →
εἰς	eis	into	G1519 →
φυλακὴν	phulakēn	prison	G5438 →
ἕως	he'ōs	until	G2193 →
ἀποδῷ	apodō	he may pay	G591 →
τὸ	to	that which	G3588 →
ὀφειλόμενον.¶	opheilomenon	is being owed.	G3784 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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1 Kings 22:27
and tell them that this is what the king says: ‘Put this man in prison and feed him only bread and water until I return safely.’”
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 16:10
  Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.
- 2 Chronicles 18:25–27
  And the king of Israel declared, “Take Micaiah and return him to Amon the governor of the city and to Joash the king’s son,
- Revelation 2:10
  Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful…
- Luke 12:45–46
  But suppose that servant says in his heart, ‘My master will be a long time in coming,’ and he begins to beat the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and drink and get drunk.
- Jeremiah 37:15
  The officials were angry with Jeremiah, and they beat him and placed him in jail in the house of Jonathan the scribe, for it had been made into a prison.