New Revised Standard Version
When he began the reckoning, one who owed him ten thousand talents was brought to him;

Contemporary English Version
As he was doing this, one official was brought in who owed him 50,000,000 silver coins.

New American Bible
When he began the accounting, a debtor was brought before him who owed him a huge amount.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And when he had begun to take the account, one as brought to him, that owed him ten thousand talents.

And when he had begun to take the account, one as brought to him, that owed him ten thousand talents.

owed.

Luke 7:41,42 A certain creditor had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence and the other fifty. . . .

Luke 13:4 Or those eighteen upon whom the tower fell in Siloe and slew them: think you that they also were debtors above all the men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

*marg:

Luke 16:5,7 Therefore, calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord? . . .

ten thousand.

216?; ten thousand of which would amount to

2,160,000?. If the Jewish talent of silver be designed, which is estimated by the same learned writer at

450?., this sum amounts to

4,500,000?.; but if the gold talent is meant, which is equal to

7200?., then the amount is

72,000,000?. This immense sum represents our boundless obligations to God, and our utter incapacity, as sinners infinitely indebted to Divine justice, of paying one mite out of the talent.

1 Chronicles 29:7 And they gave for the works of the house of the Lord, of gold, five thousand talents, and ten thousand solids: of silver ten thousand talents: and of brass eighteen thousand talents: and of iron a hundred thousand talents.

Ezra 9:6 And said: My God I am confounded and ashamed to lift up my face to thee: for our iniquities are multiplied over our heads, and our sins are grown up even unto heaven,

Psalm 38:4 For my iniquities are gone over my head: and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.

Psalm 40:12 For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.

Psalm 130:3,4 If thou, O Lord, wilt mark iniquities: Lord, who shall stand it. . . .

talents.

750 ounces of silver, which after five shillings the ounce is

187?.

10s.'