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1 - And he said also to his disciples: There was a certain rich man who had a steward: and the same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods.

2 - And he called him and said to him: How is it that I hear this of thee? Give an account of thy stewardship: for now thou canst be steward no longer.

3 - And the steward said within himself: What shall I do, because my lord taketh away from me the stewardship? To dig I am not able; to beg I am ashamed.

4 - I know what I will do, that when I shall be removed from the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.

5 - Therefore, calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord?

6 - But he said: An hundred barrels of oil. And he said to him: Take thy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty.

7 - Then he said to another: And how much dost thou owe? Who said: An hundred quarters of wheat. He said to him: Take thy bill and write eighty.

8 - And the lord commended the unjust steward, forasmuch as he had done wisely: for the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light.

9 - And I say to you: Make unto you friends of the mammon of iniquity: that when you shall fail, they may receive you into everlasting dwellings.

10 - He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in that which is greater: and he that is unjust in that which is little is unjust also in that which is greater.

11 - If then you have not been faithful in the unjust mammon, who will trust you with that which is the true?

12 - And if you have not been faithful in that which is another's, who will give you that which is your own?

13 - No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other: or he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.

14 - Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

15 - And he said to them: you are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is high to men is an abomination before God.

16 - The law and the prophets were until John. From that time the kingdom of God is preached: and every one useth violence towards it.

17 - And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass than one tittle of the law to fall.

18 - Every one that putteth away his wife and marrieth another committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery.

19 - There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day.

20 - And there was a certain beggar, named Lazarus, who lay at his gate, full of sores,

21 - Desiring to be filled with the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. And no one did give him: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

22 - And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died: and he was buried in hell.

23 - And lifting up his eyes when he was in torments, he saw Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom:

24 - And he cried and said: Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water to cool my tongue: for I am tormented in this flame.

25 - And Abraham said to him: Son, remember that thou didst receive good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted and thou art tormented.

26 - And besides all this, between us and you, there is fixed a great chaos: so that they who would pass from hence to you cannot, nor from thence come hither.

27 - And he said: Then, father, I beseech thee that thou wouldst send him to my father's house, for I have five brethren,

28 - That he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torments.

29 - And Abraham said to him: They have Moses and the prophets. Let them hear them.

30 - But he said: No, father Abraham: but if one went to them from the dead, they will do penance.

31 - And he said to him: If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they believe, if one rise again from the dead.