1 En Hy het ook aan sy dissipels gesê: Daar was 'n ryk man wat 'n bestuurder gehad het; en hy is by hom aangeklaag as een wat sy besittings verkwis.
2 En hy het hom geroep en vir hom gesê: Wat is dit wat ek van jou hoor? Gee verslag van jou bestuur van sake; want jy sal nie meer bestuurder kan wees nie.
3 Toe sê die bestuurder by homself: Wat sal ek doen? Want my heer neem die bestuurderskap van my weg. Spit kan ek nie; om te bedel, skaam ek my.
4 Ek weet wat ek sal doen, sodat wanneer ek van die bestuurderskap afgesit is, hulle my in hulle huise kan ontvang.
5 Toe roep hy die skuldenaars van sy heer, een vir een, en sê vir die eerste: Hoeveel skuld jy aan my heer?
6 En hy antwoord: honderd vat olie. En hy sê vir hom: Neem jou skuldbewys, gaan sit en skryf gou vyftig.
7 Daarna sê hy vir 'n ander een: En jy, hoeveel skuld jy? En hy antwoord: honderd mud koring. Toe sê hy vir hom: Neem jou skuldbewys en skryf tagtig.
8 En die heer het die onregverdige bestuurder geprys, omdat hy verstandig gehandel het; want die kinders van hierdie wêreld is verstandiger teenoor hulle geslag as die kinders van die lig.
9 En Ek sê vir julle: Maak vir julle vriende deur die onregverdige Mammon, sodat wanneer julle die lewe verlaat, hulle jul in die ewige tente kan ontvang.
10 Hy wat getrou is in die minste, is ook in die grote getrou; en hy wat onregverdig is in die minste, is ook in die grote onregverdig.
11 As julle dan nie getrou was in die onregverdige Mammon nie, wie sal julle die ware goed toevertrou?
12 En as julle nie getrou was in 'n ander se goed nie, wie sal aan julle jul eie gee?
13 Geen huiskneg kan twee here dien nie; want hy sal •f die een haat en die ander een liefhê, •f die een aanhang en die ander een verag. Julle kan nie God ,n Mammon dien nie.
14 En die Fariseërs, wat geldgierig was, het ook al hierdie dinge gehoor en Hom beskimp.
15 En Hy het vir hulle gesê: Dit is julle wat julself regverdig voor die mense, maar God ken julle harte; want wat by die mens hoog geag word, is 'n gruwel voor God.
16 Die wet en die profete was tot op Johannes; van toe af word die evangelie van die koninkryk van God verkondig, en elkeen dring met geweld daarin.
17 Maar dit is makliker dat die hemel en die aarde verbygaan as dat een tittel van die wet sou val.
18 Elkeen wat van sy vrou skei en 'n ander een trou, pleeg egbreuk; en elkeen wat trou met die vrou wat van haar man geskei is, pleeg egbreuk.
19 En daar was 'n ryk man, en hy het purper en fyn linne gedra en elke dag vrolik en weelderig gelewe.
20 En daar was 'n bedelaar met die naam van Lasarus wat vol swere voor sy poort gelê het.
21 En hy het verlang om hom te versadig met die krummels wat van die ryk man se tafel val. Ja, selfs die honde het gekom en sy swere gelek.
22 En toe die bedelaar sterf, is hy deur die engele weggedra na die boesem van Abraham.
23 En die ryk man het ook gesterwe en is begrawe. En toe hy in die doderyk sy oë ophef, terwyl hy in smarte was, sien hy Abraham van ver af en Lasarus aan sy boesem.
24 En hy roep en sê: Vader Abraham, wees my barmhartig en stuur Lasarus, dat hy die punt van sy vinger in water kan insteek en my tong verkoel; want ek ly smarte in hierdie vlam.
25 Maar Abraham antwoord: Kind, onthou dat jy jou goeie dinge in jou lewe ontvang het, en so ook Lasarus die slegte. En nou word hy getroos, maar jy ly smarte.
26 En by dit alles is daar tussen ons en julle 'n groot kloof gevestig, sodat die wat hiervandaan wil oorgaan na julle, nie kan nie; en die wat d r is, nie na ons kan oorkom nie.
27 En hy sê: Ek bid u dan, vader, om hom na my vader se huis te stuur --
28 want ek het vyf broers -- om hulle dringend te waarsku, sodat hulle nie ook in hierdie plek van pyniging kom nie.
29 Toe sê Abraham vir hom: Hulle het Moses en die Profete; laat hulle na die luister.
30 Maar hy antwoord: Nee, vader Abraham, maar as iemand uit die dode na hulle gaan, sal hulle hul bekeer.
31 Maar hy sê vir hom: As hulle na Moses en die Profete nie luister nie, sal hulle nie oortuig word nie, al sou iemand ook uit die dode opstaan.
1 And another time he said to the disciples, There was a certain man of great wealth who had a servant; and it was said to him that this servant was wasting his goods.
2 And he sent for him and said, What is this which is said about you? give me an account of all you have done, for you will no longer be the manager of my property.
3 And the servant said to himself, What am I to do now that my lord takes away my position? I have not enough strength for working in the fields, and I would be shamed if I made requests for money from people in the streets.
4 I have come to a decision what to do, so that when I am put out of my position they will take me into their houses.
5 And sending for every one who was in debt to his lord he said to the first, What is the amount of your debt to my lord?
6 And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said, Take your account straight away and put down fifty.
7 Then he said to another, What is the amount of your debt? And he said, A hundred measures of grain. And he said to him, Take your account and put down eighty.
8 And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.
9 And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.
10 He who is true in a little, is true in much; he who is false in small things, is false in great.
11 If, then, you have not been true in your use of the wealth of this life, who will give into your care the true wealth?
12 And if you have not been true in your care of the property of other people, who will give you that which is yours?
13 No man may be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other; or he will keep to the one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
14 And the Pharisees, who had a great love of money, hearing these things, were making sport of him.
15 And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.
16 The law and the prophets were till John: but then came the preaching of the kingdom of God, and everyone makes his way into it by force.
17 But heaven and earth will come to an end before the smallest letter of the law may be dropped out.
18 Everyone who puts away his wife and takes another, is a false husband: and he who is married to a woman whose husband has put her away, is no true husband to her.
19 Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.
20 And a certain poor man, named Lazarus, was stretched out at his door, full of wounds,
21 Desiring the broken bits of food which came from the table of the man of wealth; and even the dogs came and put their tongues on his wounds.
22 And in time the poor man came to his end, and angels took him to Abraham's breast. And the man of wealth came to his end, and was put in the earth.
23 And in hell, being in great pain, lifting up his eyes he saw Abraham, far away, and Lazarus on his breast.
24 And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.
25 But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.
26 And in addition, there is a deep division fixed between us and you, so that those who might go from here to you are not able to do so, and no one may come from you to us.
27 And he said, Father, it is my request that you will send him to my father's house;
28 For I have five brothers; and let him give them an account of these things, so that they may not come to this place of pain.
29 But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them give ear to what they say.
30 And he said, No, father Abraham, but if someone went to them from the dead, their hearts would be changed.
31 And he said to him, If they will not give attention to Moses and the prophets, they will not be moved even if someone comes back from the dead.