The Good News According to Luke, Chapter 16
{16:1} He also said to his [1>]talmidim[<1], "There was a certain
rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this
man was wasting his possessions. {16:2} He called him, and said to
him, 'What is this that I hear about you? Give an accounting of your
management, for you can no longer be manager.'
{16:3} "The manager said within himself, 'What will I do, seeing
that my lord is taking away the management position from me? I don't
have strength to dig. I am ashamed to beg. {16:4} I know what I will
do, so that when I am removed from management, they may receive me
into their houses.' {16:5} Calling each one of his lord's debtors to
him, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe to my lord?' {16:6} He
said, 'A hundred batos of oil.' He said to him, 'Take your bill, and
sit down quickly and write fifty.' {16:7} Then said he to another,
'How much do you owe?' He said, 'A hundred cors of wheat.' He said to
him, 'Take your bill, and write eighty.'
{16:8} "His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done
wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation,
wiser than the children of the light. {16:9} I tell you, make for
yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you
fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents. {16:10} He who is
faithful in a very little is faithful also in much. He who is
dishonest in a very little is also dishonest in much. {16:11} If
therefore you have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who
will commit to your trust the true riches? {16:12} If you have not
been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which
is your own? {16:13} No servant can serve two masters, for either he
will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to one,
and despise the other. You aren't able to serve God and mammon."
{16:14} The Perushim, who were lovers of money, also heard all these
things, and they scoffed at him. {16:15} He said to them, "You are
those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your
hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the
sight of God. {16:16} The Torah and the Prophets were until Yochanan.
From that time the Good News of the Kingdom of God is preached, and
everyone is forcing his way into it. {16:17} But it is easier for
heaven and earth to pass away, than for one tiny stroke of a pen in
the law to fall. {16:18} Everyone who divorces his wife, and marries
another, commits adultery. He who marries one who is divorced from a
husband commits adultery.
{16:19} "Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in
purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day. {16:20} A certain
beggar, named El'azar, was laid at his gate, full of sores, {16:21}
and desiring to be fed with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's
table. Yes, even the dogs came and licked his sores. {16:22} It
happened that the beggar died, and that he was carried away by the
angels to Avraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
{16:23} In She'ol, he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and saw
Avraham far off, and El'azar at his bosom. {16:24} He cried and said,
'Father Avraham, have mercy on me, and send El'azar, that he may dip
the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue! For I am in
anguish in this flame.'
{16:25} "But Avraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your
lifetime, received your good things, and El'azar, in like manner, bad
things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish. {16:26}
Besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, that
those who want to pass from here to you are not able, and that none
may cross over from there to us.'
{16:27} "He said, 'I ask you therefore, father, that you would send
him to my father's house; {16:28} for I have five brothers, that he
may testify to them, so they won't also come into this place of
torment.'
{16:29} "But Avraham said to him, 'They have Moshe and the prophets.
Let them listen to them.'
{16:30} "He said, 'No, father Avraham, but if one goes to them from
the dead, they will repent.'
{16:31} "He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moshe and the
prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"
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Footnotes:
[1] {16:1} disciples
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