Luke 15:6-7

Luke 15:6. Hundred measures, or, ‘baths,' = the Ephah in dry measure, nearly ten gallons.

Take thy bill, lit, ‘writings.' The document in the steward's hands, showing the obligation.

Quickly. The business must be done in a hurry.

And write fifty, i.e., alter the figure. The old bond is not destroyed, but returned to the debtor to be thus altered. The supposition that the steward himself made up the difference is out of the question. There is no sign of penitence, and the man was not able to do it (Luke 15:3).