Luke 16

The Parable of the Dishonest Manager

1Now he said to the disciples, “There was a rich # 16:1 Lk 16:19 man who received an accusation that his manager # 16:1 Lk 12:42 was squandering # 16:1 Lk 15:13 his possessions. 2So he called the manager in and asked, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, # 16:2 1Tm 1:4 because you can no longer be my manager.’

3 “Then the manager said to himself, ‘What will I do since my master is taking the management away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig; I’m ashamed to beg. 4I know what I’ll do so that when I’m removed from management, people will welcome me into their homes.’

5 “So he summoned each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master? ’ he asked the first one.

6 “ ‘A hundred measures of olive oil,’ he said.

“ ‘Take your invoice,’ he told him, ‘sit down quickly, and write fifty.’

7 “Next he asked another, ‘How much do you owe? ’

“ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he said.

“ ‘Take your invoice,’ he told him, ‘and write eighty.’

8 “The master praised the unrighteous manager # 16:8 Lk 18:6 because he had acted shrewdly. For the children of this age # 16:8 Mt 12:32; Lk 20:34 are more shrewd than the children of light # 16:8 Jn 12:46; Eph 5:8; 1Th 5:5 in dealing with their own people. # 16:8 Lit own generation 9And I tell you, make friends # 16:9 Lk 11:41 for yourselves by means of worldly wealth # 16:9 Lit unrighteous money, also in v. 11,# 16:9 Mt 6:24; 1Tm 6:10 so that when it fails, they may welcome you into eternal dwellings. 10Whoever is faithful # 16:10 Mt 25:21–23 in very little # 16:10 Lk 19:17 is also faithful in much, and whoever is unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much. 11So if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who will trust you with what is genuine? 12And if you have not been faithful with what belongs to someone else, who will give you what is your own? 13No # 16:13 Mt 6:24 servant can serve two masters, since either he will hate # 16:13 Lk 14:26 one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”

Kingdom Values

14The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, # 16:14 2Tm 3:2 were listening to all these things and scoffing # 16:14 Lk 23:35 at him. 15And he told them, “You are the ones who justify # 16:15 Lk 10:29; 18:9 yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts. # 16:15 1Sm 16:7; Ps 17:3; Pr 21:2; Rm 8:27 For what is highly admired by people is revolting # 16:15 Dt 24:4 in God’s sight.

16 “The # 16:16–17 Mt 5:18; 11:12–13; 24:35; Mk 13:31 Law and the Prophets # 16:16 Mt 7:12; 22:40; Ac 13:15; Rm 3:21 were until John; since then, the good news of the kingdom of God # 16:16 Mt 4:23 has been proclaimed, and everyone is urgently invited to enter it. # 16:16 Or everyone is forcing his way into it 17But it is easier # 16:17 Mt 5:18 for heaven and earth to pass away than for one stroke of a letter in the law to drop out.

18 “Everyone # 16:18 Mt 5:32; 19:9; Mk 10:11–12 who divorces # 16:18 Mt 1:19; 19:9 his wife and marries another woman commits adultery, # 16:18 Ex 20:14; Lv 20:10; Pr 6:32; 2Pt 2:14 and everyone who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.

The Rich Man and Lazarus

19 “There was a rich man who would dress in purple and fine linen, # 16:19 Ex 28:6; 35:35; Est 8:15; Pr 31:22; Ezk 27:16; Rv 18:16 feasting lavishly every day. 20But a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, was lying at his gate. # 16:20 Ac 3:2 21He longed to be filled # 16:21 Lk 15:16 with what fell from the rich man’s table, # 16:21 Mt 15:27 but instead the dogs # 16:21 1Kg 21:19 would come and lick his sores. 22One day the poor man died and was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s side. # 16:22 Or to Abraham’s bosom; lit to the fold of Abraham’s robe; Jn 13:23,# 16:22 Jn 13:23 The rich man also died and was buried. 23And being in torment # 16:23 Is 50:11 in Hades, # 16:23 Mt 11:23 he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off, with Lazarus at his side. 24‘Father Abraham! ’ # 16:24 Lk 3:8; 16:30; 19:9; Jn 8:33,39,53 he called out, ‘Have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, because I am in agony # 16:24 Is 66:24; Mt 25:41 in this flame! ’

25 “ ‘Son,’ # 16:25 Lit Child Abraham said, ‘remember that during your life you received your good things, # 16:25 Lk 6:24 just as Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here, # 16:25 Mt 11:28 while you are in agony. 26Besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that those who want to pass over from here to you cannot; neither can those from there cross over to us.’

27 “ ‘Father,’ he said, ‘then I beg you to send him to my father’s house — 28because I have five brothers — to warn # 16:28 Ac 2:40; 8:25 them, so that they won’t also come to this place of torment.’

29 “But Abraham said, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; # 16:29 Lk 24:27,44; Jn 1:45; Ac 26:22; 28:23 they should listen to them.’

30 “ ‘No, father Abraham,’ he said. ‘But if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’

31 “But he told him, ‘If they don’t listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded if someone rises from the dead.’ ” # 16:31 Mt 28:11–15; Jn 12:10–11

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Lukas 16

1And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach was saying also to the talmidim, A certain oisher (rich man) had a sochen (steward, estate manager or agent), and the charge brought against him was that he was squandering the property of the oisher (rich man). 2And having called him, the oisher said to the sochen, What is this I hear about you? Submit to a bikoret beshbonot (audit) for that which is under your pekuddah (stewardship care), for you are no longer able to be sochen. 3And the sochen said to himself, What may I do, because Adoni takes away the pekuddah from me? I am not strong enough to dig, I am ashamed to beg. 4Oh! I have daas of what I may do, that when I am removed from the work of the sochen, they may receive me into their batim. 5And having summoned his Adonʼs debtors one by one, he was saying to the first, How much do you owe Adoni? 6And he said, One hundred jugs of olive oil. And the sochen said to him, Take your bill, sit down, quickly write fifty. 7Then to another he said, And you, how much do you owe? And he said, One hundred containers of wheat. He says to him, Take your bill and write eighty. 8And the Baal Bayit praised the unrighteous sochen because he acted with chochmah. Because the Bnei HaOlam HaZeh have more seichel in dealing with their own generation than the Bnei HaOhr.#16:8 Ps 17:14; 18:26 9And I say to you, use the mammon (the wealth of the Olam HaZeh) to make for yourselves yedidim (friends, chaverim), so that when unrighteous mammon fails, they may welcome you into the mishkenot olam (eternal dwellings of the Olam HaBah).

10The one oisgehalten in little, also is neeman in much, and the one who is unrighteous in little, also in much is unrighteous. 11If, then, you were not ne'eman with unrighteous mammon, who will entrust you with hon emes? 12And if you were not neeman with that which belongs to another, who will give you what is your own? 13No eved is able to serve two adonim; for either he will have sinah (hatred) toward the one and he will have ahavah (love) toward the other, or one he will be devoted to and the other he will despise. Your avodas service cannot be for both Hashem and Mammon.

14And the Perushim, who were ohavei kesef (lovers of money), heard all this and they made leitzonus (fun) of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach. 15And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, You are the ones who in the sight of Bnei Adam credit yourself as being yitzdak im Hashem#16:15 Job 25:4 (justified with G-d), but Hashem has daas (knowledge) of your levavot. Because the thing highly esteemed among Bnei Adam is a to'eva (abomination) before Hashem.

16The Torah and the Neviim were proclaimed until Yochanan; since then it is the Malchut Hashem that is being preached as Besuras HaGeulah, and anyone entering it must strive to do so. 17But it is easier for HaShomayim and HaAretz to pass away than for one tag (ornamental flourish) of the Torah to fail.

18Anyone giving the get to his isha and taking another wife commits ni'uf (adultery), and the one marrying a gerusha (divorcee) commits ni'uf (adultery).

19Now there was a certain oisher (rich man). He was dressed in purple and fine linen, and yom yom (daily) he feasted sumptuosly and every day for him was to make a simcha.#16:19 Ezek 16:49 20And there was a certain ish oni (poor man) covered with sores, El'azar by name, who had been laid at the oisherʼs sha'ar (gate). 21And the ish oni El'azar longed to fill his mogen (stomach) with what fell from the oisherʼs tish. But even the kelevim (dogs) were coming and licking the sores of the ish oni (poor man). 22And it came to pass that El'azar died, and he was carried away by the malachim to the tish at the kheyk (bosom) of Avraham Avinu. And then the oisher (rich man) died also, and he was buried. 23And lifting up his eynayim in Sheol, where he was in the torments of agony, he sees Avraham Avinu off in the distance and El'azar at tish at his kheyk (bosom). 24And he called, Avraham Avinu! Chaneni na and send El'azar that he may dip the tip of his finger into the mayim and cool my tongue, because I am in torment in this moked (fire).#16:24 Isa 66:24 25But Avraham Avinu said, Beni, have zikaron (recollection) that you received your tov in the span of your days, and El'azar likewise received the ra'ah. But now he is given nechamah (comfort) here, but you, yisurim (sufferings, torments).#16:25 Ps 17:14 26And, in addition to all these things, there has been fixed between us and you a tehom gedolah (a great abyss, chasm), so that the ones wishing to come over from here to you are not able, neither from there to us may they cross over. 27And the oisher said, I ask you then, Avraham Avinu, that you may send El'azar to the bais of Avi, 28for I have chamesh achim (five brothers) that he may warn them, lest also they may come to this place of yisurim (torments). 29But Avraham Avinu says, They have Moshe Rabbeinu and the Neviim. Let them listen to them. 30But the oisher said, Lo (no), Avraham Avinu, but if someone from the Mesim should go to them, they will make teshuva. 31But Avraham said to him, If Moshe Rabbeinu and the Neviim they do not listen to, neither if someone should make his Techiyah from the Mesim should they be persuaded.

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