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The Unforgiving Servant quiz
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What did Peter ask Jesus?
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1. What did Peter ask Jesus?
- A. How to pray
- B. How many times he had to forgive someone
- C. Where to catch fish
- D. When it would rain
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Answer: B. How many times he had to forgive someone. Peter asked, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Until seven times?" (Matthew 18:21).
2. How many times did Jesus say to forgive?
- A. Seven times
- B. Three times
- C. Seventy times seven
- D. Only once
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Answer: C. Seventy times seven. Jesus said, "I don't tell you until seven times, but, until seventy times seven" (Matthew 18:22). In other words, keep on forgiving.
3. How much did the servant owe the king?
- A. Ten thousand talents
- B. Ten coins
- C. One hundred denarii
- D. One loaf of bread
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Answer: A. Ten thousand talents. Ten thousand talents (Matthew 18:24). One talent was usually counted as about 6,000 denarii, around twenty years of work. He could never pay it back.
4. What did the king do when the servant begged for more time?
- A. Laughed at him
- B. Gave him one more week
- C. Asked his friends to pay
- D. Forgave the whole debt
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Answer: D. Forgave the whole debt. The king felt compassion for him, let him go and forgave him the debt (Matthew 18:27).
5. How much did the servant's friend owe him?
- A. One gold crown
- B. One hundred denarii
- C. Ten thousand talents
- D. Fifty camels
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Answer: B. One hundred denarii. One hundred denarii (Matthew 18:28). A denarius was a day's pay for a worker (Matthew 20:2), so that was real money, but tiny next to what the servant had owed.
6. What did the servant do to his friend?
- A. Forgave him too
- B. Gave him more time
- C. Threw him into prison
- D. Paid the debt for him
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Answer: C. Threw him into prison. He would not wait, and had his friend thrown into prison until he paid (Matthew 18:30).
7. What did the king ask the servant at the end?
- A. Shouldn't you have had mercy on your friend, as I had mercy on you?
- B. Why are you late?
- C. Where did you hide my money?
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Answer: A. Shouldn't you have had mercy on your friend, as I had mercy on you?. "Shouldn't you also have had mercy on your fellow servant, even as I had mercy on you?" (Matthew 18:33).
8. Why should we forgive each other?
- A. Because it's a rule at school
- B. So people will give us presents
- C. So we never get hurt again
- D. Because God in Christ forgave us
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Answer: D. Because God in Christ forgave us. "Forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you" (Ephesians 4:32).