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He said, ‘A hundred [a]measures of [olive] oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write [b]fifty.’ Then he said to another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ He said, ‘A hundred [c]measures of wheat.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and write eighty.’ And his master commended the unjust manager [not for his misdeeds, but] because he had acted shrewdly [by preparing for his future unemployment]; for the sons of this age [the non-believers] are shrewder in relation to their own kind [that is, to the ways of the secular world] than are the sons of light [the believers].

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 16:6 Gr baths, a Hebrew unit of measure equaling about 7-8 gal.
  2. Luke 16:6 It is possible that the manager was releasing the debtors from unlawful interest he was charging them (cf v 2)
  3. Luke 16:7 Gr kors, one kor equals 10-12 bushels.

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