This episode of Sunday Dive is a special edition. Katie is home in Southern California recording in her brother's makeshift garage music studio and she's joined by her good friend Jess who plays co-host. Our Gospel today is chock-full of numbers (Katie actually used a calculate a lot getting ready for this episode!). What we find in crunching the numbers is that the servant in our parable owed his king an *exorbitant* amount of money. And, yet, the king in his great mercy forgave the debt. The question posed by the parable: Do we do the same to others or do we hold the debts of others against them?
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Davies, W. D., and Dale C. Allison Jr. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to Saint Matthew. Vol. 2. International Critical Commentary. London; New York: T&T Clark International, 2004.
Keener, Craig S. The Gospel of Matthew: A Socio-Rhetorical Commentary. Grand Rapids, MI; Cambridge, U.K.: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2009.
Mitch, Curtis, and Edward Sri. The Gospel of Matthew. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Academic, 2010.
REFERENCES
Leviticus 19:17-18 - "You shall not hate your brother in your heart, but you shall reason with your neighbor, lest you bear sin because of him. 18 You shall not take vengeance or bear any grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself."
Genesis 4:24 - "If Cain is avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold.”