18 “Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you release on earth will be released in heaven.
19 Again, truly I say to you that if two of you agree on earth about any matter that they ask, it will be done for them from my Father who is in heaven.
20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there in the midst of them.”
21 Then Peter came up to him and said, “Lord, how many times will my brother sin against me and I will forgive him? Up to seven times?”
22 Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven!
23 “For this reason the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man—a king—who wanted to settle accounts with his slaves.
24 And when he began to settle them, someone was brought to him who owed ten thousand talents.