More than half a million times!
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In the parable in Matthew 18:21-35, there were probably 6,000
denarii to each of the 10,000 talents the servant owed. That's 600,000
times more than the 100 denarii his fellow servant owed.
R. T. France (The Gospel According to Matthew: An Introduction and Commentary Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1985) points out that a talent was the highest unit of currency and 10,000 was the highest Greek number. Jesus chose the largest easily-describable sum of money to portray an almost unimaginably large debt.
Telling the story today, we would probably say one billion dollars.
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