1Jesus also talked to his disciples. He said, A rich man had a manager in charge of his things. People told the rich man that the manager was wasting his things. 2he called the manager and asked him, "What is this I hear about you? Tell me what you have done. You cannot be my manager any more." 3Then the manager thought to himself, "What will I do? My master is taking my work away from me. I am not strong enough to go out and dig. I am ashamed to beg. 4I know what I will do. Then, when I lose my job, these people will take me into their own homes." 5So he called to him everyone who owed his master something. He asked the first man, "How much do you owe my master?" 6He answered, "A hundred tins of oil." The manager said, "Take your paper. Sit down right now and write on it fifty." 7Then he asked the next man, "How much do you owe?" He said, "A hundred bags of grain." The manager said, "Take your paper and write on it eighty." 8Then the master praised the manager who did wrong. He praised him because he did what was wise. The people of this world are wiser than the people who have the Light. They know how to get along with people like themselves. 9I tell you this. Money may be a wrong thing, but use it to make friends for yourselves. Then when your money is spent, they will be glad to see you come into that place where people live for ever. 10Anyone who can be trusted in a little matter can also be trusted in a big matter. Anyone who does wrong in a very little matter will do wrong also in a big matter. 11So if you could not be trusted to use money, which is bad, who will trust you to use true riches? 12If you could not be trusted with what belonged to another person, who will give you something for yourself? 13No servant can work for two masters. He will hate one and love the other. Or he will obey one and despise the other. You cannot work for both God and money. 14The Pharisees loved money. They heard all these things. They made fun of him. 15He said to them, You try to make men think you are all right. But God knows your hearts. What men think is fine, God hates. 16The Law and the Prophets gave Gods word until John came. Since then, the good news of Gods kingdom has been told. And now everyone tries hard to get into the kingdom. 17It would be easier to take away the sky and the earth than for the smallest part of the law to fall. 18If a man sends away his wife and marries another woman, he commits adultery. And if the man marries a woman who has been sent away by her husband, he commits adultery. 19There was a rich man who dressed and lived like a king every day. 20A poor man named Lazarus was put at his door. He had many sores on his body. 21He wanted to eat the pieces of food that fell from the rich mans table. Dogs came and licked his sores. 22The poor man died. Angels carried him to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried. 23He was in great pain in the world of dead people. He looked up and saw Abraham far away. With him was Lazarus. 24He called out, "Father Abraham, help me! Send Lazarus to dip his finger in some water and cool my tongue. This fire is very hot for me." 25But Abraham said to him, "Son, remember this. You had a good time when you were living. Lazarus had a bad time when he was living. But now he is happy here and you are in pain. 26But that is not all. A wide hole is between you and us. No one can go from here to you if he wanted to. And no one can come from where you are to us." 27The rich man said, "Then, father, I beg you, send Lazarus to my fathers house. 28I have five brothers there. Tell him to talk to them so that they will not come to this place where there is pain." 29But Abraham said, "They have Moses and the Prophets. They can listen to them." 30He answered, "No, father Abraham! But if a man who had died went to them, they would stop their wrong ways." 31Abraham said, "If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, then they will not believe, even if a man were raised from death."