Matthew 18:24

In 9 translations

BSB

As he began the settlements, a debtor was brought to him owing ten thousand talents.A talent was worth about twenty years’ wages for a laborer.

KJV

And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.

WEB

When he had begun to settle, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.Ten thousand talents (about 300 metric tons of silver) represents an extremely large sum of money, equivalent to about 60,000,000 denarii, where one denarius was typical of one day’s wages for agricultural labor.

ASV

And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, that owed him ten thousand talents.

LSV

and he having begun to take account, there was brought near to him one debtor of a myriad of talents,

YLT

and he having begun to take account, there was brought near to him one debtor of a myriad of talents,

DBY

And having begun to reckon, one debtor of ten thousand talents was brought to him.

DRC

And when he had begun to take the account, one was brought to him, that owed him ten thousand talents.

GNV

And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought vnto him, which ought him ten thousand talents.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

ἀρξαμένου δὲ αὐτοῦ συναίρειν προσηνέχθη αὐτῷ εἷς ὀφειλέτης μυρίων ταλάντων.

RP2018

Ἀρξαμένου δὲ αὐτοῦ συναίρειν, προσηνέχθη αὐτῷ εἷς ὀφειλέτης μυρίων ταλάντων.

TR-Boyd

Ἀρξαμένου δὲ αὐτοῦ συναίρειν, προσηνέχθη αὐτῷ εἷς ὀφειλέτης μυρίων ταλάντων.

SCR1894

αρξαμενου δε αυτου συναιρειν προσηνεχθη αυτω εις οφειλετης μυριων ταλαντων

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 130:3–4If You, O LORD, kept track of iniquities, then who, O Lord, could stand? But with You there is forgiveness, so that You may be feared.
• Psalms 38:4For my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
• Psalms 40:12For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
• Luke 13:4Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem?
• Ezra 9:6and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.
• Luke 16:5And he called in each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked the first.
• 1 Chronicles 29:7Toward the service of God’s house they gave 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze, and 100,000 talents of iron.
• Luke 7:41–42“Two men were debtors to a certain moneylender. One owed him five hundred denarii, and the other fifty. When they were unable to repay him, he forgave both of them. Which one, then, will love him more?”
• Luke 16:7Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take your bill and write eighty,’ he told him.

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