^{23 Ref} Therefore the Kingdom of Heaven is like a certain king, who wanted to reconcile accounts with his servants.

^{24 Ref} When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.{Ten thousand talents 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.}

^{25 Ref} But because he couldn't pay, his lord commanded him to be sold, with his wife, his children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.