Unmerciful Servant

The parable that Jesus tells is about all of Jews that beg for forgiveness but betray others when they are the ones that need to give the forgiveness. These people have done horrible things beyond imagine and yet they beg for forgiveness and others forgive them. Once they have been forgiven they ignore the graces that have been given to them and they betray and do not forgive others for the most petty things and you should think of the grace people have given you and be grateful and offer it to others. No one should keep hatred...they should forgive and move on.

The main character is actually the Unmerciful Servant. The idea of the whole story derives from his actions. This story is meant to teach people the need for forgiveness and the amount that you should show. 77 times is just a number to show an infinite number of times that you are to forgive the people that do you wrong. The Unmerciful Servant is this idea of a regular Jew going and betraying the grace that has been given to him and also going against the law of God and betraying a fellow Jew. This servant ignores the great debt that he has been forgiven and does not have to pay any longer and begins to harrass a fellow Jew over a small amount of money and not just asks for the money he chokes the fellow Jew for it. Once he begs for forgiveness just like he himself had done just earlier to get out of a huge debt he calls the soldiers over and has the man thrown in jail until he could pay. This is rediculous since this should have happened to him if anyone.

The master may have been a man of god and knew that he should not oppress his fellow Jew. So after he had acted hastily by saying that his family be sold and their things to pay back the and then the servant told him he would pay the master finally agreed that he did not need the money that bad to ruin a fellow mans life. He cancelled the debt because he knew that he should treat people with forgiveness when asked for it and show like this man did that he would in time pay back the debt but the master was so rich that he cancelled it and lifted a great weight off the servants shoulders.

The servant does not follow the example of the king because when he got away with that he totally forgot about it. He thought ok I got out of this there is no need to lend that same slack to anyone else so I will get mine and get ahead. So he saw who owed him money and basically since things were rought back then he shook him down for the money and since he couldnt pay he wasnt gunna let him get away so he got him thrown in jail until he could pay. Things were tough back then and even though someone gave you slack you tried to get more and didn't give your own slack.

The kingdom of god is a place where God will forgive you no matter what but you too must show the forgiveness that god shows you. You cant take and not give or you will know the suffering that you put others through and sometimes worst. Respect the people around you and you will live a good life. You will be forgiven for a large large amount and you are asked to only forgive for a small amount so at least do that after you are forgiven for something so big and give people a chance like you yourself got and you will be fine. If you don't you will learn your lesson the hard way.