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The Parable of the Unjust Steward or Parable of the Penitent Steward is a parable of Jesus which appears in Luke 16:1–13.In it, a steward who is about to be fired tries to "curry favor" with his master's debtors by remitting some of their debts. [1]
This parable of Jesus appears in Luke, but not in the other canonical gospels of the New Testament.Verses 1 to 8a tell a story about a steward who is about to be dismissed, but "curries favor" with his master's debtors by remitting some of their debts.
The moneychanger and his wife (1539), Museo del Prado, Madrid. Marinus van Reymerswaele or Marinus van Reymerswale [a] (c. 1490 – c. 1546) was a Dutch Renaissance painter mainly known for his genre scenes and religious compositions.
The Unjust Judge: Luke 18:1–8 The Rich Fool: Luke 12:16–21 Dives and Lazarus: Luke 16:19–31 The Great Supper: Luke 14:15–24 The Prodigal Son: Luke 15:11–32 The Unjust Steward: Luke 16:1–9 The Unprofitable Servants: Luke 17:7–10 The Pharisee and the Publican: Luke 18:9–14
This parable of Jesus, also known as the Parable of the Wicked Husbandmen, is found in three of the four canonical gospels (Luke 20:9–19, Mark 12:1–12, and Matthew 21:33–46), and also in the non-canonical Gospel of Thomas. For Rudolf Bultmann, the passage is not a "parable" but an "allegory", and "intelligible only on that basis". [10]
Luke 18 is the eighteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It records the teachings and a miracle of Jesus Christ. [1] The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that Luke the Evangelist composed this Gospel as well as the Acts of the Apostles.
According to the Textus Receptus of the New Testament, [10] the Greek word translated "Mammon" is spelt in the dative case as [οὐ δύνασθε θεῷ δουλεύειν καὶ] μαμμωνᾷ in the Sermon on the Mount at Matthew 6:24, while in the Parable of the Unjust Steward at Luke 16, it appears respectively as [ἐκ τοῦ ...
Avenge me of mine adversary (anonymous), contracted by Pacific Press Publishing Company (1900) The parable of the unjust judge, by Jan Luyken, 1712. The Parable of the Unjust Judge (also known as the Parable of the Importunate Widow or the Parable of the Persistent Woman, is one of the parables of Jesus which appears in the Gospel of Luke (Luke 18:1–8). [1]