Matthew Chapter 18 verse 27 Holy Bible
And the lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.
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And the lord of that servant, being moved with pity, let him go, and made him free of the debt.
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And the lord of that bondman, being moved with compassion, loosed him and forgave him the loan.
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Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.
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The lord of that servant, being moved with compassion, released him, and forgave him the debt.
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and the lord of that servant having been moved with compassion did release him, and the debt he forgave him.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - Was moved with compassion. The earthly circumstance has its counterpart in God's dealings with sinners. Humility, confession, prayer, are accepted by him as payment of the debt. Loosed him from arrest, from being sold as a slave. This was the first favour accorded. The second was even greater. Forgave him the debt. The servant had asked only for time; he receives acquittance of the enormous sum which he owed. The king's severity had brought home to the debtor his full guilt did its consequences; when he realizes these, and throws himself on his lord's mercy, he receives more than he had asked or hoped for. But (to revert to the spiritual interpretation) the pardoned sinner must not forget the past; he must live as one forgiven. Says the penitent psalmist, "I acknowledge my transgressions, and my sin is ever before me" (Psalm 51:3).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(27) Was moved with compassion.--The teaching of the parable deals tenderly even with that impotent effort at justification. It touches the heart of the "lord of that servant," and is met with more than it asked for--not with patience and long-suffering only, but with the pity that forgives freely. The sinner is absolved, and the vast debt which he could never pay is forgiven freely. So far as he believes his Lord's assurance, he is now "justified by faith."Forgave him the debt.--The Greek noun in this case expresses a debt contracted through a loan, and in the interpretation of the parable suggests a thought like that in the parables of the Pounds, the Talents, and the Unjust Steward. What we call our own--life, with all its opportunities--is really lent to us, and God requires repayment with interest.
