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# Connecting Statement:
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Jesus uses a parable to teach about forgiveness and reconciliation.
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# the kingdom of heaven is similar
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This introduces a parable. See how you translated a similar parable introduction in [Matthew 13:24 ](../13/24.md ). (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parables]])
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# to settle accounts with his servants
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"his servants to pay him what they owed him" or "to have his servants tell him what they had done with the goods he had entrusted to them"
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