There was a certain creditor who had two debtors. One owed five hundred denarii, and the other [owed] fifty.

And when they had nothing with which to pay back, he freely forgave them both. Tell [Me], therefore, which of them will love him more?"

Or those eighteen on whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that these were offenders more than all other men who dwelt in Jerusalem?

And having summoned each one of his master's debtors to him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe my master?'

Then he said to another, 'And how much do you owe?' So he said, 'A hundred measures of wheat.' And he said to him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'

And they gave for the works of the house of the Lord five thousand talents of gold, and ten thousand gold [pieces], and ten thousand talents of silver, and eighteen thousand talents of bronze, and a hundred thousand talents of iron.

and I said, O Lord, I am ashamed and confounded, O my God, to lift up my face to You; for our transgressions have abounded over our head, and our trespasses have increased even to heaven.

For my transgressions have gone over my head; they have pressed heavily upon me like a weighty burden.

For innumerable evils have encompassed me; my transgressions have taken hold of me, and I could not see; they are multiplied more than the hairs of my head; and my heart has failed me.

If You, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?

For with You is forgiveness;