Chapter 32
The Parable of the Dishonest Manager
Verse 1: Then Jesus said to his disciples, “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions. | Luke 16:1
2 So he summoned him to ask, ‘What is all this that I hear about you? Give the account of your management because you can no longer be my manager.’ | Luke 16:2
3 Then the manager said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking away my position? I am too weak to dig, and too ashamed to beg. | Luke 16:3
4 I know what I will do, when I am discharged as manager, people may welcome me into their homes.’ | Luke 16:4
5 And he called in each one of his master’s debtors one by one and so he asked, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ | Luke 16:5
6 The debtor answered, ‘A hundred measures of olive oil.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.’ | Luke 16:6
7 Then the manager asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ The debtor replied, ‘A hundred measures of wheat.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill and write eighty.’ | Luke 16:7
8 And the master praised the dishonest manager for he had acted shrewdly, because the children of this age are more prudent in dealing with their own kind than are the children of light. | Luke 16:8
9 And I say to you, use worldly wealth of others to make friends for yourselves so that when it is gone they may welcome you into their eternal dwellings. | Luke 16:9
10 Whoever is faithful with very little will also be faithful with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. | Luke 16:10
11 So, then, if you have not been faithful with worldly wealth, who shall entrust to you the true riches? | Luke 16:11
12 And if you have not been trustworthy with someone else's belongings, who shall give you what is your own? | Luke 16:12
13 No servant can serve two masters, for a servant will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both my Father and wealth. | Luke 16:13, Matthew 6:24
14 Whoever finds the world and becomes rich, they should renounce the world.” | Gospel of Thomas 110
The Law and the Kingdom of God
15 The Pharisees, who were lovers of wealth and money, heard all these things, some scoffed but all ridiculed him. | Luke 16:14
16 So he said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but my Father knows your hearts, for what is treasured by humans is detestable to the sight of him.” | Luke 16:15
The Parable of the Rich Man and the beggar Lazarus
17 Jesus told them another parable: “There was a rich man who dressed in purple robes and fine linen and who enjoyed a splendid banquet every day. | Luke 16:19
18 And in-front of his gate lay a beggar named Lazarus, covered with sores, | Luke 16:20
19 who desired to satisfy his hunger with what little crumbs that fell from the rich man’s banquet. But even the stray dogs would come and lick his sores. | Luke 16:21
20 After a short time, the poor man perished and was taken away by the angels to be judged. The rich man later died and was buried. | Luke 16:22
21 The rich man, where he was being tormented, experiencing all the woes of people that he caused or refused to unburden then caught a glimpse of Lazarus far away with an angel by his side. | Luke 16:23
22 He cried out and said, ‘Lord, have mercy on me, and send someone to comfort me, for I am in agony in these haunting visions of my past life.’ | Luke 16:24
23 But the Lord said, ‘Child, recall that during your lifetime you received what you thought desirable, and Lazarus in like manner undesirable things, but now he is comforted here for doing good works, and you are in agony. | Luke 16:25
24 Besides all this, between you and him is a great divide, you will be cast out into the darkness to suffer another fate.’ | Luke 16:26
25 ‘Then I beg you, lord,’ he said, ‘send Lazarus to my father’s house, | Luke 16:27
26 for I have five brothers. Let him warn them, so that they will not also be taken into this place and suffer the same torment.’ | Luke 16:28
27 The Lord replied, 'They have followed Moses and the prophets and look where it has led them.'
28 ‘No, father Abraham,’ he said, ‘but if someone is sent to them from the dead, they will repent.’ | Luke 16:30
29 The Lord said to him, 'Those who have let Moses and the prophets close their eyes will not see, even when someone rises from the dead. This is the chasm that cannot be crossed.'
30 Then the disciples approached Jesus and said to him, “Are you aware that the Pharisees took great offense when they heard what you said?” | Matthew 15:12
31 Jesus sighed and said, “If you have ears to hear, then hear” | Mark 7:16
The Death of Lazarus
32 At this time a man named Lazarus was sick. He lived in Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. | John 11:1
33 So the sisters sent word to Jesus, “Master, our brother whom you love is ill.” | John 11:3
34 But when Jesus heard this, he said, “His sickness will not lead to death; rather, it is for my Father's glory, so that the Son may be glorified through it.” | John 11:4
35 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister Mary and their brother Lazarus, | John 11:5
36 and yet, when he heard that Lazarus was ill, he remained in the place where he was for two days longer. | John 11:6
37 Then after this he said to his disciples, “Let us return to Judea again.” | John 11:7
38 The disciples told him, “Master, the Judaean leaders have been looking to stone you, and are you going there again?” | John 11:8
39 Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours in the day? Anyone who walks during the day does not trip or stumble because they see the light of this world. | John 11:9
40 But if anyone who walks at night stumbles and falls, it is because the light is not in them.” | John 11:10
41 After he had said this, he added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going there so that I may wake him.” | John 11:11
42 The disciples replied to him, “Lord, if he is asleep, he will get well again.” | John 11:12
43 But Jesus had been talking about his death, but they did not understand and thought that he was referring merely to sleep. | John 11:13
44 Then Jesus spoke to them plainly, “Lazarus had died. | John 11:14
45 I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, in order that ye may believe. Now let us go to him.” | John 11:15
46 Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, “Let us go too, so that we may die with him.” | John 11:16