Luke 16:1-8 Then He said further to His disciples: “There was a certain rich man who had a manager, who was accused to him of wasting his goods.

WPNT⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Then He said further to His disciples: “There was a certain rich man who had a manager, who was accused to him of wasting his goods. ² So he called him in and said to him: ‘What is this I hear about you? Render an account of your stewardship, because you can no longer be manager.’ ³ Then the manager said within himself: ‘What shall I do? My master is taking the management away from me. I don’t have strength to dig; I am ashamed to beg ⁴ —I know what I’ll do, so that whenever I am removed from the management they may receive me into their houses.’ ⁵ Summoning each one of his master’s debtors, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’ ⁶ And he said, ‘A hundred baths of olive oil’. So he said to him, ‘Take your bill and sit down quickly and write fifty’. ⁷ Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ And he said, ‘A hundred measures of wheat’. So he said to him, ‘Take your bill and write eighty’. ⁸ The master even ‘commended’ the dishonest manager, because he had acted shrewdly. The sons of this age are shrewder in their own generation than the sons of the Light.