2. So he called the manager in and asked, ‘What is this I hear about you? Give an account of your management, because you can no longer be my manager.’
3. “Then the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do, since my master is taking the management away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig; I’m ashamed to beg.
4. I know what I’ll do so that when I’m removed from management, people will welcome me into their homes.’
5. “So he summoned each one of his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master? ’ he asked the first one.
6. “ ‘A hundred measures of olive oil,’ he said.“ ‘Take your invoice,’ he told him, ‘sit down quickly, and write 50.’
7. “Next he asked another, ‘How much do you owe? ’“ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he said.“ ‘Take your invoice,’ he told him, ‘and write 80.’
8. “The master praised the unrighteous manager because he had acted astutely. For the sons of this age are more astute than the sons of light in dealing with their own people.