Jesus once told a Pharisee that a sinful woman who anointed His feet loved much because she had been forgiven much, while the one forgiven little loves little; the size of our love for Christ mirrors how deeply we grasp how much we’ve been forgiven. This two-part message pushes further into an often-excused sin: unforgiveness, which quietly poisons the heart and corrodes every relationship it touches.
Jesus reinforces this with the parable of a servant forgiven an enormous debt who then refuses to forgive a much smaller one owed to him, and warns that the Father will deal the same way with those who withhold forgiveness from the heart. Our forgiveness cost God dearly, pictured in the suffering servant who was pierced for our transgressions, so having been forgiven so much, we are called to forgive others just as freely, from the heart.