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LUKE 16:1–16:13 ©

The parable about the shrewd manager

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Literal Version 

16:1 The parable about the shrewd manager

16Yeshua also told this to his followers, “Once there was a rich man who had a manager who worked for him. A whistle-blower reported that the manager had been abusing the owner’s possessions 2so the owner called him and asked, ‘What’s this I’m hearing about you? Give back the ledgers because I don’t want you as a manager any more.’ 3Then the manager thought to himself, ‘Oh dear, what will I do now that I’m losing this management job? I’m not strong enough to be out digging and I’d be too ashamed to beg. 4I know what I’ll do so that when I lose my job, I’ll still be popular with everyone else.’ 5So he called in each person who owed money to his master. He asked the first one, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ 6‘A hundred jugs of olive oil,’ he replied. ‘Well, bring the contract here and change it quickly to fifty,’ the manager said. 7Then he asked the next one, ‘How much do you owe?’ ‘A hundred containers of wheat,’ the man replied. ‘Get the contract form and change it to eighty,’ said the manager. 8When he heard, the landowner praised the dishonest manager for his shrewdness because the modern generation are better at working the system than the children of light in their generation.

9So I’m telling you all to use worldly money to make friends for yourselves, so that whenever it runs out, they’ll accept you all into the eternal homes.[fn] 10Anyone who’s faithful with a little is also faithful with much, and the person who’s dishonest with a little is also dishonest with a lot. 11Because of that, if you aren’t faithful with worldly money, who would entrust true wealth to you all? 12If you’re not faithful in your treatment of strangers, who would give you anything for yourselves?

13[ref]No household servant can serve two masters, because either they’ll hate the one and love the other, or they’ll support the one and despise the other.


16:9 This sentence is very difficult to understand, so it’s likely that we’re missing some cultural cues here, and in the parable above.


16And he_was_saying also to the apprentices/followers:
A_ certain _man was rich, who was_having a_manager, and this one was_accused to_him as scattering the things possessing of_him.
2And having_called him, he_said to_him:
What is this I_am_hearing concerning you?
Give_back the account of_the management of_you, because/for you_are_ not _being_able anymore to_be_managing.
3And the manager said by himself:
What may_I_do, because the master of_me is_taking_away the management from me?
I_am_ not _able To_be_digging, I_am_being_ashamed to_be_begging.
4I_knew what I_may_do, in_order_that whenever I_may_be_removed from the management, they_may_receive me into the homes of_them.
5And having_called_to each one of_the debtors of_the master of_himself, he_was_saying to_the first:
How_much you_are_owing to_the master of_me?
6And he said:
A_hundred batos/(bat)_measures of_olive_oil.
And he said to_him:
Receive of_you the bills and having_sat_down quickly write fifty.
7Then to_another he_said:
And how_much are_ you _owing?
And he said:
A_hundred koros/(kor)_measures of_wheat.
He_is_saying to_him:
Receive of_you the bills and write eighty.
8And the master praised the manager of_ the _unrighteousness, because he_performed prudently.
Because the sons of_ the this _age are more_prudently beyond the sons of_the light in the generation which of_themselves.
9And I am_saying to_you_all, make friends for_yourselves by the money of_ the _unrighteousness, in_order_that whenever it_may_fail, they_may_receive you_all into the eternal dwellings.
10The one faithful with the_least, is also faithful with much, and the one unrighteous with the_least, is also unrighteous with much.
11Therefore if you_all_became not faithful with the unrighteous money, who will_be_entrusting the true wealth to_you_all?
12And if you_all_became not faithful with the stranger, who will_be_giving the_ your _things to_you_all?
13Not_one house_servant is_able to_be_serving for_two masters, because/for either he_will_be_hating the one, and the other he_will_be_loving, or of_the_one he_will_be_upholding, and of_the other he_will_be_despising.
You_all_are_ not _being_able to_be_serving for_god and money.

LUKE 16:1–16:13 ©

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