than most states’ minimum wage today, a hundred days’ earnings would come to four thousand dollars. The sum in its own right is significant enough. It’s just that it’s ludicrously small compared with the first servant’s debt. Jesus intends for his story to enrage his audience. He also teaches about God and his ways with humanity, and that leads us to the parable’s three central lessons. These lessons emerge both from the three principal characters in the story and from the three main scenes into