The Good News According to Luke, Chapter 16
{16:1} He also said to his disciples, "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 [1>]hundred batos[<1] of oil.' He said to him, 'Take your
bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.' {16:7} Then he said to
another, 'How much do you owe?' He said, 'A [2>]hundred cors[<2] 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
[3>]mammon[<3]."
{16:14} The Pharisees, 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 Torah to become void. {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 Lazarus, 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 Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
{16:23} In [4>]Sheol[<4], he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and
saw Abraham far off, and Lazarus at his bosom. {16:24} He cried and
said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, 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 Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your
lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, 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 Abraham said to him, 'They have Moses and the Prophets.
Let them listen to them.'
{16:30} "He said, 'No, father Abraham, but if one goes to them from
the dead, they will repent.'
{16:31} "He said to him, 'If they don't listen to Moses and the
Prophets, neither will they be persuaded if one rises from the dead.'"
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Footnotes:
[1] {16:6} 100 batos is about 395 litres or 104 U. S. gallons.
[2] {16:7} 100 cors = about 3,910 litres or 600 bushels.
[3] {16:13} "Mammon" refers to riches or a false god of wealth.
[4] {16:23} or, Hell
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