translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: MAT

label: NET study note

text: A talent was equal to 6000 denarii. See the note on this term in 18:24 .


text: That is, “If you really feared me you should have done a minimum to get what I asked for.”


text: The one who has nothing has even what he seems to have taken from him , ending up with no reward at all (see also Luke 8:18 ). The exact force of this is left ambiguous, but there is no comfort here for those who are pictured by the third slave as being totally unmoved by the master. Though not an outright enemy, there is no relationship to the master either.