42And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?
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Forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarrel against any: even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye.
Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy diseases;
Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: …
And his lord was wroth, and delivered him to the tormentors, till he should pay all that was due unto him.
In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 36-49)When and where this passage of story happened does not appear; this evangelist does not observe order of time in his narrative so much as the other evangelists do; but it comes in here, upon occasion of Christ’s being reproached as a friend to publicans and sinners , to show that it was only for their good, and to bring them to repentance, that he conversed with them; and that those whom he admitt…
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