3. Then the manager said to himself, ‘What should I do, since my master is taking my position away from me? I’m not strong enough to dig, and I’m too ashamed to beg.
4. I know what to do so that when I am put out of management, people will welcome me into their homes.’
5. So he contacted his master’s debtors one by one. He asked the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’
6. The man replied, ‘A hundred measures of olive oil.’ The manager said to him, ‘Take your bill, sit down quickly, and write fifty.’