Questions about the Unforgiving Servant

The Parable of the Unmerciful Servant is first and foremost about people who do not forgive others, in this case Peter and the servant. Peter asks the question in the beginning: “…how often shall my brother sin against me and I forgive him? Up to seven times"? He sees that if someone continually wrongs you, eventually there is a point at which you should stop forgiving them. This isn’t a totally wrong idea; if someone continually is wronging and hurting you, you eventually see that they are no good and stop giving them chances. But I think the parable is less about forgiving things that people have control over, and more about forgiving what is out of someone’s control, like debt. The servant is given a chance, and it may be the first, second, or even 490th (70 x 7) time, and yet he doesn’t reciprocate that charity. Peter is not without need of forgiveness, and he is obviously forgiven. Therefore he should not be placing a limit on how much he should forgive. This parable is about Peter and servant because the parable’s message is portrayed through their actions.
One might ask why the king forgives the servant’s debt. As the Bible says, he is filled with compassion. But I think there’s also more to it than that. The king, because he is a king, is obviously rich. He is also sort of mean, as we see from him wanting to sell the servant and family for not paying the debt. But he does forgive them, which means either he realizes that the money owed is insignificant compared to his wealth, or something just suddenly overcomes him to do the right thing. So why does the servant not follow his example on the lower servant? It might be that he doesn’t make a connection between his actions and the kings (a.k.a. he’s ignorant). It might be that he is just plain greedy, and regardless of what lesson he has learned it is not worth giving up 100 denarii. One last possibility is that he might think that because he has been forgiven by the king, he has this feeling of “importance” and is somehow above everyone else because now.

When Peter originally asks if there is a certain amount of times that one should forgive someone, Jesus replies: "I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven”, and then goes on to say that because of the this, the Kingdom of God is like the parable. “If you do not forgive, then like the servant you shall not be forgiven”. When the king hears of the servant’s mistreatment of one of his servants, the tortures him, and Jesus says that God does the same. So in his kingdom, since he forgives you, you better damn well forgive others.

I think that there is a lot more to this parable than I'm talking about, because the answers seem to obvious. I hope this isn't kitchen-sinking it.