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  1. The wife of one of the guild prophets complained to Elisha. "Your servant my husband died," she said, "and you know that he feared ADONAI. Now a creditor has come to take my two children as his slaves."

  2. Elisha asked her, "What should I do for you? Tell me, what do you have in the house?" She answered, "Your servant has nothing in the house but a flask of oil."

  3. Then he said, "Go, and borrow containers from all your neighbors, empty containers; and don't borrow just a few!

  4. Then go in; shut the door, with you and your sons inside; and pour oil into all those containers; and as they are filled, put them aside."

  5. So she left him and shut the door on herself and her sons. They brought her the containers while she poured.

  6. When the containers were full, she said to her son, "Bring me another container"; but he answered, "There isn't another container." Then the oil stopped flowing.

  7. She came and told the man of God; and he said, "Go, sell the oil, and pay your debt; then you and your sons can live on what's left."

  8. There were also some who said, "We are mortgaging our fields, vineyards and homes in order to buy grain, because of the famine."

  9. Yet others said, "We have borrowed money for the king's taxes against our fields and vineyards.

  10. Now our flesh is no different from the flesh of our kinsmen, and our children are the same as their children; yet we are bringing our sons and daughters into bondage as slaves. Some of our daughters have gone into slavery already, and it's beyond our power to do anything about it, because other men have our fields and vineyards."

  11. He will have to give back what he toiled for; he won't get to swallow it down -to the degree that he acquired wealth, he won't get to enjoy it.

  12. "For he crushed and abandoned the poor, seizing houses he did not build,

  13. Because of this, the Kingdom of Heaven may be compared with a king who decided to settle accounts with his deputies.

  14. Right away they brought forward a man who owed him many millions;

  15. and since he couldn't pay, his master ordered that he, his wife, his children and all his possessions be sold to pay the debt.

  16. But the servant fell down before him. `Be patient with me,' he begged, `and I will pay back everything.'

  17. So out of pity for him, the master let him go and forgave the debt.

  18. "But as that servant was leaving, he came upon one of his fellow servants who owed him some tiny sum. He grabbed him and began to choke him, crying, `Pay back what you owe me!'

  19. His fellow servant fell before him and begged, `Be patient with me, and I will pay you back.'

  20. But he refused; instead, he had him thrown in jail until he should repay the debt.

  21. When the other servants saw what had happened, they were extremely distressed; and they went and told their master every thing that had taken place.

  22. Then the master summoned his servant and said, `You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt just because you begged me to do it.

  23. Shouldn't you have had pity on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you?'

  24. Next Yeshua told the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it to tenant-farmers and went away for a long time.

  25. When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants to receive his share of the crop from the vineyard; but the tenants beat him up and sent him away empty-handed.