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The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. This servant leaves the king and goes and finds someone who owes him denarii and demands that he pay it. This man in turn begs the servant for mercy and asks him for more time, but the ungrateful servant refuses and has him thrown him into prison until he can pay it. Other servants are angered at how wicked the ungrateful servant is and tell the king who is disgusted :.
Given the details of this parable, ten thousand talents would seem to be a large sum of money but something that could, in fact, be paid back with time and hard work. But is that the case? If you go by what the various translations of the Bible say, you will be confused. Clearly it was a great deal of money. It was a unit of measurement for weighing precious metals like silver and gold and weighed about 75 pounds. The Israelites used 29 talents of gold in the construction of their tabernacle.
In the New Testament the word meant something different. It was the largest unit of currency at that time. The Romans, remember, were ruling over Jerusalem at the time of Jesus, so their minted coins were in use there.
Ten thousand talents — A talent was a sum of money, or weight of silver or gold amounting to three thousand shekels. A silver shekel was worth, after the captivity, not far from half a dollar of our money.
A talent was equal to 6, drachmae, the equivalent of One talent equaled about 60 minas or 3, shekels. Ten thousand talents would equal 60 million denarii or 60 million days of work. A biblical talent was enough money that a man who owned it could be considered rich.
Ten thousand talents was an astronomical amount of money for the common man, an unforgivable debt. The New Testament talent was the equivalent of denarii.
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