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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.
“When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.Ten thousand talents (about 300 metric tons of silver) represents an extremely large sum of money, equivalent to about 60,000,000 denarii, where one denarius was typical of one day’s wages for agricultural labor.”
— WEB
“And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.”
— KJV
“And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, that owed him ten thousand talents.”
— ASV
And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents--If Attic talents are here meant, 10,000 of them would amount to above a million and a half sterling; if Jewish talents, to a much larger sum.
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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