1 And he said also to {his} disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and *he* was accused to him as wasting his goods.2 And having called him, he said to him, What {is} this that I hear of thee? give the reckoning of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer steward.3 And the steward said within himself, What shall I do; for my lord is taking the stewardship from me? I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg.4 I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed from the stewardship I may be received into their houses.5 And having called to {him} each one of the debtors of his own lord, he said to the first, How much owest thou to my lord?6 And he said, A hundred baths of oil. And he said to him, Take thy writing and sit down quickly and write fifty.7 Then he said to another, And thou, how much dost thou owe? And he said, A hundred cors of wheat. And he says to him, Take thy writing and write eighty.8 And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light.9 And *I* say to you, Make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, that when it fails ye may be received into the eternal tabernacles.10 He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much; and he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous also in much.11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?12 and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another's, who shall give to you your own?13 No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will cleave to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.14 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and mocked him.15 And he said to them, *Ye* are they who justify themselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what amongst men is highly thought of is an abomination before God.16 The law and the prophets {were} until John: from that time the glad tidings of the kingdom of God are announced, and every one forces his way into it.17 But it is easier that the heaven and the earth should pass away than that one tittle of the law should fail.18 Every one who puts away his wife and marries another commits adultery; and every one that marries one put away from a husband commits adultery.19 Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day.20 And {there was} a poor man, by name Lazarus, {who} was laid at his gateway full of sores,21 and desiring to be filled with the crumbs which fell from the table of the rich man; but the dogs also coming licked his sores.22 And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.23 And in hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he sees Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.24 And he crying out said, Father Abraham, have compassion on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering in this flame.25 But Abraham said, Child, recollect that *thou* hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted here, and *thou* art in suffering.26 And besides all this, between us and you a great chasm is fixed, so that those who desire to pass hence to you cannot, nor do they who {desire to cross} from there pass over unto us.27 And he said, I beseech thee then, father, that thou wouldest send him to the house of my father,28 for I have five brothers, so that he may earnestly testify to them, that they also may not come to this place of torment.29 But Abraham says to him, They have Moses and the prophets: let them hear them.30 But he said, Nay, father Abraham, but if one from the dead should go to them, they will repent.31 And he said to him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, not even if one rise from among {the} dead will they be persuaded.

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.