Hi everyone. Welcome back to Daily Gospel Exegesis, where we do a verse-by-verse

exegesis of the scripture. So we're really trying to get the original meaning of the text.

What is the literal sense of the text? That's our goal in this podcast. We have a really interesting reading to look at today.

This is considered by many to be one of the hardest passages to interpret in the entire Bible,

and probably Jesus' hardest parable to interpret. It's a very difficult text for many people.

So we're going to have a go at doing an exegesis of it,

and I think we can get close to Jesus' intended meaning here

by really breaking down the text.

So this will be a really good passage to do an exegesis on,

and hopefully our exegesis tools will come in helpful.

So our passage today is Luke chapter 16 versus 1 to 8.

That's a lectionary reading.

I'm also going to include verse 9 in here because it really does belong to that same unit

of text.

So we'll read Luke chapter 16 versus 1 to 9.

Jesus said to his disciples, there was a rich man and he had a steward denounced to him

for being wasteful with his property.

He called for the man and said, what is this I hear about you?

Draw me up an account of your stewardship because you are not to be my steward any longer.

Then the steward said to himself, now that my master is taking the stewardship from me,

what am I to do? Dig? I am not strong enough. Go begging? I should be too ashamed. Ah, I know what I will do to make sure that when I'm not strong enough. Go begging? I should be too ashamed.

Ah, I know what I will do to make sure that when I am dismissed from office, there will be some to welcome me into their homes.

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