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1 Y DIJO tambien á sus discípulos; Habia un hombre rico, el cual tenia un mayordomo; y este fué acusado delante de él como disipador de sus bienes.
Jesus said to his disciples: “There was a rich man who had a steward; and this steward was maliciously accused to him of wasting his estate.
2 Y lo llamó, y le dijo: ¿Qué [es] esto [que] oigo de tí? da cuenta de tu mayordomía, porque ya no podrás más ser mayordomo.
So the master called him and said ‘What is this that I hear about you? Give in your accounts, for you cannot act as steward any longer.’
3 Entónces el mayordomo dijo dentro de sí: ¿Qué haré? que mi señor me quita la mayordomía. Cavar, no puedo, mendigar, tengo vergüenza.
‘What am I to do,’ the steward asked himself, ‘now that my master is taking the steward’s place away from me? I have not strength to dig, and I am ashamed to beg.
4 [Yo] sé lo que haré, para que cuando fuere quitado de la mayordomía, me reciban en sus casas.
I know what I will do, so that, as soon as I am turned out of my stewardship, people may welcome me into their homes.’
5 Y llamando á cada uno de los deudores de su señor, dijo al primero: ¿Cuánto debes á mi señor?
One by one he called up his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked of the first.
6 Y él dijo: Cien barriles de aceite. Y le dijo: Toma tu obligacion, y siéntate presto, y escribe cincuenta.
‘Four hundred and forty gallons of oil,’ answered the man. ‘Here is your agreement,’ he said; ‘sit down at once and make it two hundred and twenty.’
7 Y despues dijo á otro: ¿Y tú, cuánto debes? Y él dijo: Cien coros de trigo. Y él le dijo: Toma tu obligacion, y escribe ochenta.
And you, the steward said to the next, ‘how much do you owe?’ ‘Seventy quarters of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Here is your agreement,’ the steward said; ‘make it fifty-six.’
8 Y alabó el señor al mayordomo malo por haber hecho discretamente; porque los hijos de este siglo son en su generacion mas sagaces que los hijos de luz. (aiōn g165)
His master complimented this dishonest steward on the shrewdness of his action. And indeed men of the world are shrewder in dealing with their fellow-men than those who have the Light. (aiōn g165)
9 Y yo os digo: Hacéos amigos de las riquezas de maldad, para que cuando faltareis, os reciban en las moradas eternas. (aiōnios g166)
And I say to you ‘Win friends for yourselves with your dishonest money,’ so that, when it comes to an end, there may be a welcome for you into the Eternal Home. (aiōnios g166)
10 El que es fiel en lo muy poco, tambien en lo más es fiel: y el que en lo muy poco es injusto, tambien en lo mas es injusto.
He who is trustworthy in the smallest matter is trustworthy in a great one also; and he who is dishonest in the smallest matter is dishonest in a great one also.
11 Pues si en las malas riquezas no fuisteis fieles, ¿quién os confiará lo verdadero?
So, if you have proved untrustworthy with the ‘dishonest money,’ who will trust you with the true?
12 Y si en lo ajeno no fuisteis fieles, ¿quién os dará lo que es vuestro?
And, if you have proved untrustworthy with what does not belong to us, who will give you what is really our own?
13 Ningun siervo puede servir á dos señores; porque ó aborrecerá al uno y amará al otro; ó se allegará al uno, y menospreciará al otro. No podeis servir á Dios y á las riquezas.
No servant can serve two masters, for, either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will attach himself to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.”
14 Y oian tambien todas estas cosas los Fariséos, los cuales eran avaros, y se burlaban de él.
All this was said within hearing of the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, and they began to sneer at Jesus.
15 Y díjoles: Vosotros sois los que os justificais á vosotros mismos delante de los hombres; mas Dios conoce vuestros corazones: porque lo que los hombres [tienen] por sublime, delante de Dios [es] abominacion.
“You,” said Jesus, “are the men who justify themselves before the world, but God can read your hearts; and what is highly esteemed among men may be an abomination in the sight of God.
16 La ley y los profetas hasta Juan: desde entónces el reino de Dios es anunciado, y quien quiera se esfuerza á entrar en él.
The Law and the Prophets sufficed until the time of John. Since then the Good News of the Kingdom of God has been told, and everybody has been forcing his way into it.
17 Empero más fácil cosa es pasar el cielo y la tierra, que frustrarse un tilde de la ley.
It would be easier for the heavens and the earth to disappear than for one stroke of a letter in the Law to be lost.
18 Cualquiera que repudia á su mujer, y se casa con otra, adultera: y el que se casa con la repudiada del marido, adultera.
Every one who divorces his wife and marries another woman is an adulterer, and the man who marries a divorced woman is an adulterer.
19 Habia un hombre rico, que se vestia de púrpura y de lino fino, y hacia cada dia banquete con esplendidez:
There was once a rich man, who dressed in purple robes and fine linen, and feasted every day in great splendour.
20 Habia tambien un mendigo llamado Lázaro, el cual estaba echado á la puerta de él, lleno de llagas,
Near his gateway there had been laid a beggar named Lazarus, who was covered with sores,
21 Y deseando hartarse de las migajas que caian de la mesa del rico; y aun los perros venian y le lamian las llagas.
and who longed to satisfy his hunger with what fell from the rich man’s table. Even the very dogs came and licked his sores.
22 Y aconteció que murió el mendigo, y fué llevado por los ángeles al seno de Abraham: y murió tambien el rico, y fué sepultado.
After a time the beggar died, and was taken by the angels to be with Abraham. The rich man also died and was buried.
23 Y en el infierno alzó sus ojos estando en los tormentos, y vió á Abraham de lejos, y á Lázaro en su seno. (Hadēs g86)
In the Place of Death he looked up in his torment, and saw Abraham at a distance and Lazarus at his side. (Hadēs g86)
24 Entónces él dando voces dijo: Padre Abraham, ten misericordia de mí, y envia á Lázaro que moje la punta de su dedo en agua, y refresque mi lengua; porque soy atormentado en esta llama.
So he called out ‘Pity me, Father Abraham, and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue, for I am suffering agony in this flame.’
25 Y díjole Abraham: Hijo, acuérdate que recibiste tus bienes en tu vida, y Lázaro tambien males; mas ahora este es consolado aquí, y tú atormentado.
‘Child,’ answered Abraham, ‘remember that you in your lifetime received what you thought desirable, just as Lazarus received what was not desirable; but now he has his consolation here, while you are suffering agony.
26 Y además de todo esto, una grande sima está constituida entre nosotros y vosotros, que los que quisieren pasar de aquí á vosotros, no pueden, ni de allá pasar acá.
And not only that, but between you and us there lies a great chasm, so that those who wish to pass from here to you cannot, nor can they cross from there to us.’
27 Y dijo: Ruégote, pues, padre, que le envies á la casa de mi padre;
‘Then, Father,’ he said, ‘I beg you to send Lazarus to my father’s house —
28 Porque tengo cinco hermanos; para que les testifique, porque no vengan ellos tambien á este lugar de tormento.
For I have five brothers to warn them, so that they may not come to this place of torture also.’
29 Y Abraham le dice: A Moisés y á los profetas tienen; óiganlos.
‘They have the writings of Moses and the Prophets,’ replied Abraham; ‘let them listen to them.’
30 El entónces dijo: No, padre Abraham: mas si alguno fuere á ellos de los muertos, se arrepentirán.
‘But, Father Abraham,’ he urged, ‘if some one from the dead were to go to them, they would repent.’
31 Mas [Abraham] le dijo: Si no oyen á Moisés y á los profetas, tampoco se persuadirán, si alguno se levantare de os muertos.
‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets,’ answered Abraham, ‘they will not be persuaded, even if some one were to rise from the dead.’”
