The children and their mom and dad were on their way home from church.  Debbie bounced up and down in the back seat of the car.  “Mom,” she said, “in Sunday School today our teacher told us that Jesus said we should forgive each other seventeen times....”

“Not seventeen,” said Randy. “Seventy times seven. That’s hundreds of times, isn’t it Dad?”

“Yes” Father answered. “The Lord Jesus has forgiven us many more times than that. So we certainly should forgive one another.”

“Our memory verse was a long one,” said Debbie.  “I can say just the first part of it. ‘Be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another...’”

“‘…even as God for Christ’s sake has forgiven you,’” Randy finished. Then he said, “I guess the servant that we heard about in our lesson today didn’t know that verse.  ‘Cause he sure was mean.”

“Tell us about it,” said Mother.