“How many times shall I forgive my brother when he sins against me, up to seven times?”
“Not seven times, but seventy-seven times.”
Some manuscripts have “seventy times seven,” but it hardly matters whether Jesus said 77 or 490: FORGIVENESS, he implies is not the kind of thing you count on an abacus.
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