Luke 16:7

"He said, ‘A hundred batos of oil.’ He said to him, ‘Take your bill, and sit down quickly and write fifty.’"

Key Reflection

In this passage, Jesus uses the steward’s ability to reduce debts as a parable for managing one's resources in faithfulness. By writing off half of the debt, the steward demonstrates shrewdness and cleverness in preserving his future, illustrating how believers should use their spiritual gifts wisely to gain trustworthiness with God.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Verse 7. 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, ^hebrew^--or homer, ^hebrew^--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 (Lex.), however, supposes that the bath was 11 1/2 gallons, and the kor or homer 14.45 bushels. The amount is not material to the proper understanding of the parable. Fourscore. Eighty.

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