So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him In the East rents are paid in kind, and a responsible steward, if left quite uncontrolled, has the amplest opportunity to defraud his lord, because the produce necessarily varies from year to year. The unjust steward would naturally receive from the tenants much more than he acknowledged in his accounts.
CALLED EVERY ONE - As he was “steward,” he had the management of all the affairs, and, of course, debts were to be paid to him. DEBTORS - Those who “owed” his master, or perhaps “tenants;” those who...
CHAPTER 16 _ 1. The Unjust Steward. (Luke 16:1)_ 2. The Impossible Service. (Luke 16:13) 3. The Deriding Pharisees Answered. (Luke 16:14) 4. Concerning Divorce. ...
PARABLE OF THE UNJUST STEWARD (Lk. only). It has been suggested that a better title would be The Shrewd Agent. At any rate the epithet unrighteous has as much reference (if not more) to Luke 16:1 as t...
A BAD MAN'S GOOD EXAMPLE (Luke 16:1-13)...
Jesus said to his disciples, "There was a rich man who had a steward. He received information against the steward which alleged that he was dissipating his goods. He called him, and said to him, 'What...
CALLED. Separately. EVERY. each....
ΠΡΟΣΚΑΛΕΣΆΜΕΝΟΣ ἝΝΑ ἝΚΑΣΤΟΝ. In the East rents are paid in kind, and a responsible steward, if left quite uncontrolled, has the amplest opportunity to defraud his lord, because the produce necessarily...
CHAPS. Luke 9:51 to Luke 18:31 This section forms a great episode in St Luke, which may be called the departure for the final conflict, and is identical with the journey (probably to the Feast of the...
Luke 16:1-13. THE UNJUST STEWARD...
Ver 1. And he said to his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused to him that he had wasted his goods. 2. And he called him, and said to him, How is it t...
_THE PARABLE OF THE UNJUST STEWARD -- LUKE 16:1-13:_ The parable of the unjust steward is the most difficult parable in the gospels. The steward had wasted his Lord's money, either deliberately or acc...
ΠΡΟΣΚΑΛΕΣΆΜΕΝΟΣ _aor. med. part. (temp.) от_ ΠΡΟΣΚΑΛΈΩ (G4341) созывать, призывать к себе кого-л. ΧΡΕΟΦΕΙΛΈΤΗΣ (G5533) должник, ΟΦΕΊΛΕΙΣ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΌΦΕΊΛΩ (G3784) быть должным, иметь долг...
SO HE CALLED—HIS LORD'S DEBTORS— Calling the tenants, he intimated his purpose; and whereas one by his bargain bound himself to pay yearly a _hundred_ βατους, [from the Hebrew בתים, _betim_] _baths of...
APPLEBURY'S COMMENTS _The Parable of the Unrighteous Steward Scripture_ Luke 16:1-18 And he said unto the disciples, There was a certain rich man, who had a steward; and the same was accused unto him...
BUTLER'S COMMENTS SECTION 1 Be Shrewd (Luke 16:1-13) 16 He also said to the disciples, There was a rich man who had a steward, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his goods. 2A...
So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord? SO HE CALLED EVERYONE OF HIS LORD'S DEBTORS UNTO HIM, AND SAID UNTO THE FIRST. HOW...
13 Compare Job_21:14-15. 17 Compare Jer_31:18-20. 17 The first desire of the prodigal and of all awakened sinners is to do something themselves to ameliorate their evil condition. "What must I do to...
THE UNJUST STEWARD. THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS 1-13. Parable of the Unjust Steward (peculiar to Lk). The details of this somewhat difficult parable are probably not significant. It is intended to illust...
LUKE’S GOOD NEWS LUKE _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 16 THE *PARABLE OF THE UNJUST MANAGER 16:1-8 V1 Jesus said to his *disciples, ‘A rich man had a servant who managed his property. The rich man heard...
SO HE CALLED EVERY ONE OF HIS LORD’S DEBTORS. — The debtors might be either men who had bought their wheat and their oil at the hands of the steward; or, as the sequel renders more probable, tenants w...
_The parable of the unjust steward_....
ἕνα ἕκαστον : he sees them one by one, not all together. These debtors might be farmers, who paid their rents in kind, or persons who had got supplies of goods from the master's stores; which of the t...
THE RIGHT USE OF MONEY Luke 16:1-13 We are all stewards, but how much we waste! Well might our Master deprive us of our post and trust! The unjust steward used his opportunity of ingratiating himself...
The Master had a lesson to teach His disciples on the subject of earthly wealth, and He made use of this unjust steward for purposes of illustration only. The element in the action of the steward whic...
CHAPTER 13 THE UNJUST STEWARD Luke 16:1-13. “ _And He continued to speak to His disciples_, _There was a certain rich man who had a steward_, _and he was falsely accused to him as wasting his goods_...
This piece contains: 1 _st._ The parable of the unjust steward, with accompanying reflections (Luke 16:1-13); 2 _d._ Reflections forming an introduction to the parable of the wicked rich man, and the...
And first the parable: Luke 16:1-9. In this portraiture, as in some others, Jesus does not scruple to use the example of the wicked for the purpose of stimulating His disciples. And in fact, in the mi...
1 _st. Luke 16:1-13_. _The Unjust Steward._ Is there a connection between this lesson on riches and the preceding? The formula ἔλεγε δὲ καί, _and He said also_ (Luke 16:1), seems to indicate that ther...
(1) And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him, that he had wasted his goods. (2) And he called him, and said unto him, Ho...
The ninth chapter opens with the mission not the setting apart, but the circuit of the twelve sent out by the Lord, who therein was working after a fresh sort. He communicates power in grace to men, c...
_THE MAN WHO ACTED WISELY_ ‘There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; … And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely.’ Luke 16:1 This parable draws a lesson from t...
In chapter 16, the effect of grace on conduct is presented, and the contrast that exists (the dispensation being changed) between the conduct that Christianity requires with regard to the things of th...
SO HE CALLED EVERY ONE OF HIS LORD'S DEBTORS,.... Either the Gentiles, who were greatly indebted to God, having sinned against him, and the law, and light of nature, at a great rate; into whose affect...
So he called every one of his lord's debtors _unto him_, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord? Ver. 5. _How much owest thou?_] Some are ever owing; and may say of debt, as the st...
_So he called_, &c. In pursuance of this scheme he sent for all those of his lord's debtors whom he could hope to oblige by so fraudulent a proposal, determining to lower the several articles in his b...
SO HE CALLED EVERY ONE OF HIS LORD'S DEBTORS UNTO HIM, AND SAID UNTO THE FIRST, HOW MUCH OWEST THOU UNTO MY LORD?...
The deliberations with their result:...
A PARABLE AS TO THE USE OF THE MASTER'S GOODS (vs.1-13) Now the Lord turned to address His disciples. For though it is pure grace that saves and finds deep delight in the repentance of a sinner, yet...
1-12 Whatever we have, the property of it is God's; we have only the use of it, according to the direction of our great Lord, and for his honour. This steward wasted his lord's goods. And we are all...
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Luke 16:5 So G2532 called G4341 (G5666) every G1538 one G1520 his G1438 masters G2962 debtors G5533 said...
“And calling to him each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, ‘How much do you owe to my lord?' And he said, ‘A hundred measures of oil.' And he said to him, ‘Take your bond, and sit down...
THE PARABLE OF THE ASTUTE STEWARD (16:1-13). Jesus now tells a parable about an astute but careless estate manager who is failing to do his job properly. It is reported that he is ‘wasting' his lord's...
THIS division of the Gospel of Luke, embracing nearly one third of the whole, contains for the most part matter peculiar to this Evangelist. A number of the incidents probably belong to an earlier per...
The _second_ division of the discourse (chaps, Luke 10:1 to Luke 17:10), addressed _to the disciples._ The parable it contains presents great difficulties to the interpreter ; although the sense of th...
CONTENTS: Parable of the unjust steward. Jesus answers Pharisees. Rich man and Lazarus in the spirit world. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples, John the Baptist, rich man, Lazarus, Abraham, five broth...
Luke 16:1. _A certain rich man had a steward accused that he had wasted his goods._ After the parable of the prodigal son, we have a second, of a prodigal steward, who had wasted his lord's property....
NOW I KNOW WHAT I WILL DO. The "way out" of all this comes to him in a flash! SO HE CALLED IN ALL THE PEOPLE. In order to _make friends_ who will welcome him in their homes. He calls these people to c...
_There was a certain rich man, which had a steward_ CHRIST’S SERVANTS ARE STEWARDS I. SHOW WHAT THINGS THEY ARE ENTRUSTED WITH, THAT ARE NOT THEIR OWN. 1. All earthly good things, as riches, health...
LUKE—NOTE ON LUKE 16:4 The reduction of both bills would have amounted to about 500 denarii (about 20 months’ wages). ⇐ ⇔
CHAPTER 16 VER. 1. _And He said also unto His disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods._ Having rebuked in three par...
_CRITICAL NOTES_ Luke 16:1. AND HE SAID ALSO.—This implies that there is a certain, though perhaps not very close, connection between the discourse in this chapter and that which precedes it. The chap...
EXPOSITION LUKE 16:1 The _Lord_'_s teaching on the right use of earthly possessions with regard to the prospect of another world, in the form of the two parables of the unjust steward, and Dives and...
Jesus speaks on two unpleasant subjects, to a lot of people. Not unpleasant to me, but to a lot of people. Talks about hell. That's not unpleasant to me, not worried about it at all. Now Jesus is at a...
Luke 7:41; Luke 7:42; Matthew 18:24...
He called. Alford and Trench think that the debtors were together; but the words seem to me to indicate that he dealt with them separately. He called to him each one, and said unto the first; after th...