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Prepare a full account of your stewardship, because you can no longer be my steward.’ <span id="v49016003" class="ver">3</span>The steward said to himself, ‘What shall I do, now that my master is taking the position of steward away from me? I am not strong enough to dig and I am ashamed to beg. <span id="v49016004" class="ver">4</span>I know what I shall do so that, when I am removed from the stewardship, they may welcome me into their homes.’ <span id="v49016005" class="ver">5</span>He called in his master’s debtors one by one. To the first he said, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ <span id="v49016006" class="ver">6</span><a id="rfn49016006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn49016006-1">*</a> He replied, ‘One hundred measures of olive oil.’ He said to him, ‘Here is your promissory note. Sit down and quickly write one for fifty.’ <span id="v49016007" class="ver">7</span>Then to another he said, ‘And you, how much do you owe?’ He replied, ‘One hundred kors<a id="rfn49016007-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn49016007-1">*</a> of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Here is your promissory note; write one for eighty.’ <span id="v49016008" class="ver">8</span>And the master commended that dishonest steward for acting prudently.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Application of the Parable.<a id="rfn49016008-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn49016008-1">*</a></span> “For the children of this world are more prudent in dealing with their own generation than are the children of light.<a id="rfn49016008-2" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn49016008-2">*</a><a id="ren49016008-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49016008-a">a</a> <span id="v49016009" class="ver">9</span>I tell you, make friends for yourselves with dishonest wealth,<a id="rfn49016009-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn49016009-1">*</a> so that when it fails, you will be welcomed into eternal dwellings.<a id="ren49016009-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49016009-b">b</a> <span id="v49016010" class="ver">10</span><a id="rfn49016010-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn49016010-1">*</a> The person who is trustworthy in very small matters is also trustworthy in great ones; and the person who is dishonest in very small matters is also dishonest in great ones.<a id="ren49016010-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49016010-c">c</a> <span id="v49016011" class="ver">11</span>If, therefore, you are not trustworthy with dishonest wealth, who will trust you with true wealth? <span id="v49016012" class="ver">12</span>If you are not trustworthy with what belongs to another, who will give you what is yours? <span id="v49016013" class="ver">13</span>No servant can serve two masters.<a id="rfn49016013-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn49016013-1">*</a> He will either hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”<a id="ren49016013-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49016013-d">d</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">A Saying Against the Pharisees.</span> <span id="v49016014" class="ver">14</span><a id="rfn49016014-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn49016014-1">*</a> The Pharisees, who loved money,<a id="rfn49016014-2" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn49016014-2">*</a> heard all these things and sneered at him. <span id="v49016015" class="ver">15</span>And he said to them, “You justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts; for what is of human esteem is an abomination in the sight of God.<a id="ren49016015-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49016015-e">e</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Sayings About the Law.</span> <span id="v49016016" class="ver">16</span>“The law and the prophets lasted until John;<a id="rfn49016016-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn49016016-1">*</a> but from then on the kingdom of God is proclaimed, and everyone who enters does so with violence.<a id="ren49016016-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49016016-f">f</a> <span id="v49016017" class="ver">17</span>It is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for the smallest part of a letter of the law to become invalid.<a id="ren49016017-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49016017-g">g</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Sayings About Divorce.</span> <span id="v49016018" class="ver">18</span>“Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and the one who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.<a id="ren49016018-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49016018-h">h</a></p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">The Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus.<a id="rfn49016019-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn49016019-1">*</a></span> <span id="v49016019" class="ver">19</span>“There was a rich man<a id="rfn49016019-2" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn49016019-2">*</a> who dressed in purple garments and fine linen and dined sumptuously each day. <span id="v49016020" class="ver">20</span>And lying at his door was a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores,<a id="ren49016020-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49016020-i">i</a> <span id="v49016021" class="ver">21</span>who would gladly have eaten his fill of the scraps that fell from the rich man’s table. Dogs even used to come and lick his sores. <span id="v49016022" class="ver">22</span>When the poor man died, he was carried away by angels to the bosom of Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried, <span id="v49016023" class="ver">23</span>and from the netherworld,<a id="rfn49016023-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn49016023-1">*</a> where he was in torment, he raised his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. <span id="v49016024" class="ver">24</span>And he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have pity on me. Send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering torment in these flames.’ <span id="v49016025" class="ver">25</span>Abraham replied, ‘My child, remember that you received what was good during your lifetime while Lazarus likewise received what was bad; but now he is comforted here, whereas you are tormented.<a id="ren49016025-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49016025-j">j</a> <span id="v49016026" class="ver">26</span>Moreover, between us and you a great chasm is established to prevent anyone from crossing who might wish to go from our side to yours or from your side to ours.’ <span id="v49016027" class="ver">27</span>He said, ‘Then I beg you, father, send him to my father’s house, <span id="v49016028" class="ver">28</span>for I have five brothers, so that he may warn them, lest they too come to this place of torment.’ <span id="v49016029" class="ver">29</span>But Abraham replied, ‘They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them.’ <span id="v49016030" class="ver">30</span><a id="rfn49016030-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn49016030-1">*</a> He said, ‘Oh no, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead goes to them, they will repent.’ <span id="v49016031" class="ver">31</span>Then Abraham said, ‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded if someone should rise from the dead.’ ”<a id="ren49016031-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en49016031-k">k</a></p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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