1 And He also said to His taught ones, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager and he was accused to him as wasting his possessions.
2 “So having called him he said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, for you are no longer able to be manager.’
3 “And the manager said within himself, ‘What shall I do? For my master is taking the managership away from me. I am unable to dig, I am ashamed to beg.
4 ‘I know what I shall do, that, when I am removed from the managership, they might receive me into their houses.’
5 “And calling every one of his master’s debtors to him, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’