3. The servant said to himself, ‘My master is going to dismiss me from my job. What shall I do? I am not strong enough to dig ditches, and I am ashamed to beg.
4. Now I know what I will do! Then when my job is gone, I shall have friends who will welcome me in their homes.’
5. “So he called in all the people who were in debt to his master. He asked the first one, ‘How much do you owe my master?’
6. ‘100 barrels of olive oil,’ he answered. ‘Here is your account,’ the manager told him; ‘sit down and write fifty.’
7. Then he asked another one, ‘And you — how much do you owe?’ ‘A thousand sacks of wheat,’ he answered. ‘Here is your account,’ the manager told him; ‘write 800.’