When he had begun to reconcile, one was brought to him who owed him ten thousand talents.
The disciples asked who would be greatest in the kingdom, not from hunger for holiness but for name and rank. They had dreamed of a temporal kingdom with external pomp and power, fastened upon Christ's words of glory while forgetting His sufferings. Many love to hear of privileges and crown while overlooking the yoke and cross.
AI summary
Commenting on Matthew 18:1-35
And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents. (m) Here is set down a very great sum of six thousand crowns, that the difference may be the greater, for there is no proportion between them.
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.