Luke 16:7 BSB — MannaFest

Luke 16:7

Then he asked another, ‘And how much do you owe?’ ‘A hundred measures of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Take your bill and write eighty,’ he told him.

BSB

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ASV

Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. He saith unto him, Take thy bond, and write fourscore.

KJV

Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Letter 121, Chapter 6 (420)

You proposed a little question about the Gospel of Luke (Chapter 16, verse 1 et seq.): Who is the steward of iniquity who is praised by the voice of the Lord? When I wanted to know the reason for this and from which source it came, I examined the volume of the Gospel, and I found among other things that, as the tax collectors and sinners approached the Saviour to hear him, the Pharisees and scribes murmured, saying, "Why does this one receive sinners and eat with them?" (Luke 15:2).

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

Origen of Alexandria

HOMILIES ON GENESIS 13.4 (253)

What the Gospel of "the unjust steward" says is also an image of this matter. He says to the debtor [of one hundred measures of wheat], "Take your bill, sit down, and write eighty," and the other things that are related. You see that he said to each man, "Take your bill." It is evident from this that the documents of sin are ours, but God writes documents of justice.

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

How hard is it to find one that confidence can be reposed in! Let God be true, but every man a liar. Though this steward is turned out for dealing dishonestly, yet still he does so.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Measures of wheat - The measure here mentioned - the “kor,” or homer - contained, according to the tables of Dr. Arbuthnot, about 32 pecks, or 8 bushels; or, according to the marginal note, about 14 bushels and a “pottle.” A “pottle” is 4 pints. The Hebrew “kor,” כר kor, or “homer,” חמר chomer, was equal to 10 baths or 70 gallons, and the actual amount of the measure, according to this, was not far from 8 gallons. Robinson, Lexicon), however, supposes that the bath was 11 12 gallons, and the kor or homer 14 to 45 bushels.

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Original language & word study

22 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ἔπειτα	epeita	Then	G1899 →
ἑτέρῳ	heterō	to another	G2087 →
εἶπεν·	eipen	he said;	G2036 →
σὺ	su	You yourself	G4771 →
δὲ	de	now	G1161 →
πόσον	poson	how much	G4214 →
ὀφείλεις;	opheileis	owe?	G3784 →
ὁ	ho	<the>	G3588 →
δὲ	de	And	G1161 →
εἶπεν·	eipen	he said;	G2036 →
ἑκατὸν	hekaton	A hundred	G1540 →
κόρους	korous	cors	G2884 →
σίτου.	sitou	of wheat.	G4621 →
λέγει	legei	He says	G3004 →
αὐτῷ·	autō	to him;	G846 →
δέξαι	dexai	do take	G1209 →
σου	sou	your	G4771 →
τὰ	ta	<the>	G3588 →
γράμματα	grammata	bills	G1121 →
καὶ	kai	and	G2532 →
γράψον	grapson	do write	G1125 →
ὀγδοήκοντα.	ogdoēkonta	eighty.	G3589 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk5

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Luke 20:9
Then He proceeded to tell the people this parable: “A man planted a vineyard, rented it out to some tenants, and went away for a long time.
leads to
- Matthew 21:33–46
  Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some…
- Mark 12:1–12
  Then Jesus began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a wine vat, and built a watchtower. Then he rented it out to…
- Isaiah 5:1–7
  I will sing for my beloved a song of his vineyard: My beloved had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.
- Psalms 80:8–14
  You uprooted a vine from Egypt; You drove out the nations and transplanted it.
- Jeremiah 2:21
  I had planted you like a choice vine from the very best seed. How could you turn yourself before Me into a rotten, wild vine?

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Luke

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Luke