Peter came up and he said to Him, “Lord, how often will my brothet sin against me and I forgive him?” Matthew 18:21 ESV

The forgiveness Peter hoped was good enough, entailed adding and subtracting. But the Lords’ answer took him by surprise, when Jesus moved the conversation from addition to multiplication. Peter’s problem, like ours is that we add up our brother’s sins thinking that we need to subtract from our own resources to forgive them. We forget that it was Jesus who paid the terrible price of pardon and that He washes sin away with multiplied grace!