t| And he said to his disciples: There was a rich man who had a steward, and this steward was accused to his master of wasting the property. And he called him and said to him: What is this I hear about you? Give the statement of your stewardship, since you can no longer be the steward. And the steward said to himself: What shall I do now that my master has taken away my stewardship from me? I am not strong enough to dig, I am ashamed to beg. Now I have seen what to do, so that I can be removed from my stewardship but people will still take me into their houses. And he called in each one of his master's debtors, and he said to the first one: How much do you owe my master? And he said: A hundred measures of oil. He said to him: Take your note and sit down quickly and write fifty. Then he said to another: And how much do you owe? He said: A hundred measures of grain. He said to him: Take your note and write eighty. And the master praised the steward for his dishonesty because he had acted prudently; because the sons of this age are wiser than the sons of light for this generation that is theirs. And
I tell you, make friends for yourselves by means of the mammon of dishonesty, so that when it gives out they may receive you into everlasting tabernacles. He who is trustworthy in the least matter is also trustworthy in the great one, and he who is dishonest in the least matter is also dishonest in the great one. If then you were not trustworthy in the dishonest mammon, who will entrust the true to you? And if you were not trustworthy in what belonged to others, who will give you what is yours? No servant can serve two masters. For he will either hate the one and love the other, or he will cling to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
The Pharisees, who are fond of money, heard all this and they sneered at him. He said to them: You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts; because what is exalted among men is an abomination in the eyes of God. Until John, it was the law and the prophets; but from then on, the good news of the Kingdom of God is announced, and everyone tries to force his way into it. But it is easier for heaven and earth to pass away than for one letter end of the law to fail. Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another is committing adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband is committing adultery.
There was a certain rich man, and he would put on purple and fine linen and feast in his splendor day after day. And a beggar, Lazarus by name, would throw himself down at his door, covered with sores, and longing to eat of the crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. And the very dogs would come out and lick his sores. And it happened that the beggar died, and he was transported by angels to recline close by Abraham; and the rich man died and was buried. And in Hades he lifted up his eyes, being in torment, and from far away he could see Abraham, and Lazarus reclining close by him. And he called out and said: Father Abraham, have pity and send Lazarus to dip his fingertip in water and refresh my tongue, because I ^ in agony in this flame. But Abraham said: My child, remember that you got your share of good things in your life, and Lazarus likewise his misfortunes. But now he is thus comforted and you are in pain. And in any case, there is a great chasm fixed between us and you, so that those who wish to cross over to you are not able to, nor can they cross from there to us. Then he said: I beg you then, father, to send him to my father's house, for I have five brothers, to warn them so that they may not come into this place of torment. But Abraham said: They have Moses and the prophets. Let them listen to them. But he said: No, father Abraham, but if someone goes to them from the dead, they will repent. But he said to him: If they do not listen to Moses and the prophets, they will not be persuaded though one rise from the dead.
•1 And he said to his disciples: It is impossible that there should come no causes to make man go astray; but woe to him through whom they come. It is better for him to have a millstone hung around his neck and be thrown into the sea than to cause one of these little ones to go astray. Watch yourselves. If your brother does wrong, charge him with it, and if he repents, forgive him. And if he does you wrong seven times in a day and seven times turns to you and says: I repent, you shall forgive him. The apostles said to the Lord: Give us more faith. But the Lord said: If you have faith the size of a grain of mustard, you could have said to this sycamine tree: Be uprooted and grow in the sea; and it would have obeyed you. Or which of you has a slave who plows or herds the flocks and will say to him when he comes in from the fields: Come now and eat with me? Will he not rather say: Prepare me something to dine on, and tuck yourself up and wait on me while I eat and drink, and after that you eat and drink? Surely he does not feel thankful to the slave because he has done as he was told? So you, when you have done all that you were told to, should say: We are worthless slaves. What we have done was what we were obliged to do.
And it happened on his journey to Jerusalem that he passed between Samaria and Galilee. And as he went into a certain village ten men who were lepers met him, and they stood at a distance, and raised their voices, saying: Jesus, master, pity us. And when he saw them he said: Go and show yourselves to the priests. And it happened that as they went they became clean. And one of them, seeing that he was healed, turned, glorifying God in a great voice, and fell on his face at his feet, thanking him. And this man was a Samaritan. Jesus answered him and said: Were not all ten made clean? Where are the nine? Were none found turning back and glorifying God except only this alien? And he said to him: Rise and go. Your faith has saved you.
When he was asked by the Pharisees when the Kingdom of God was to come, he answered them and said: The Kingdom of God is not coming in an observable way, nor will they say: Look, it is here; or: There. For see, the Kingdom of God is inside you. And he said to his disciples: Days will come when you will long to see one of the days of the son of man, and you will not see it. And they will say to you: Look, it is there; or: See, this way. Do not follow them. For as the lightning flashes and lights up, from one side to the other, what is under the sky, such will be the son of man. But first he must suffer much and be rejected by this generation. And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the days of the son of man. They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day when Noah went into the ark and the flood came and destroyed them all. Or as it was in the days of Lot. They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built houses. But on the day when Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from the sky and destroyed them all. It will be the same way on the day when the son of man is revealed. On that day, if one is on his roof and his goods are in the house, let him not come down to take them up: and so likewise let him who is in the field not turn back. Think of Lot's wife. He who tries to preserve his life will lose it, and he who loses it will bring it to life. I tell you, on that night there will be two in one bed, and one will be taken and the other left; there will be two women grinding at the same place, and one will be taken and the other left. And they answered and said to him: Where, Lord? He said to them: Where the body is, there will the eagles be gathered.
tl And he told them a parable about the need to be always praying and not weakening, saying: In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor heeded man. But there was a widow in that city and she kept going to him and saying: Vindicate me against my adversary. And for a time he would not, but later he said to himself: Even though I neither fear God nor heed man, because this widow gives me trouble I will vindicate her, so that she may not end by wearing me out with her visits. And the