King James Version · Under Rome
Luke 16
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And he said also unto his , There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. And he called him, and said unto him, How is it that I hear this of thee? give an account of thy stewardship; for thou mayest be no longer steward. Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am . I am resolved what to do, that, when I am put out of the stewardship, they may receive me into their houses. So he called every one of his ’s debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my ? And he said, An hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and sit down quickly, and write fifty. 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. And commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of . And I say unto you, Make to yourselves friends of the mammon of unrighteousness; that, when ye fail, they may receive you into habitations. He that is in that which is least is also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. If therefore ye have not been in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your the true riches? And if ye have not been in that which is another man’s, who shall give you that which is your own? No servant can two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot and mammon. And the also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. And he said unto them, Ye are they which yourselves before men; but knoweth your : for that which is highly esteemed among men is in the sight of . and were until : since that time of is preached, and every man presseth into it. And it is easier for and earth to pass, than one tittle of to fail. Whosoever putteth away his wife, and marrieth another, committeth : and whosoever marrieth her that is from her husband committeth . There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day: And there was a certain beggar named , which was laid at his , full of sores, And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. And it came to pass, that the beggar , and was carried by the into ’s : the rich man also , and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth afar off, and . And he cried and said, , have mercy on me, and send , that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my ; for I am tormented in this flame. But said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented. And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence. 27Then he said, I thee therefore, , that thou wouldest send him to ’s house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment. saith unto him, They have and ; let them hear them. And he said, Nay, : but if one went unto them from , they will . And he said unto him, If they hear not and , neither will they be persuaded, though one .
The 1611 translation, public domain. Its original printing included the Apocrypha, which is why the deuterocanonical books can be read here. Notes and cards are EKLI’s own.
The world at this moment · Under Rome, 63 BC to AD 100 ›
Judea as a client kingdom and then a province. Roads, garrisons, taxes, crucifixion, and a common Greek language that let a message travel the empire faster than any before it.
- Rome
- The republic tears itself apart in civil war and comes out as an empire under Augustus. What follows is two centuries of relative peace across the whole Mediterranean, enforced by legions and paid for by taxes, with safe roads and safe sea lanes. Every one of Paul's journeys depends on that.
- Judea
- Governed first through Herod the Great, a client king of enormous ability and enormous brutality who rebuilds the temple into one of the wonders of the ancient world, then directly by Roman prefects. Crucifixion is the standard penalty for sedition and is used often and publicly.
- The wider world
- Greek is spoken from Spain to Syria, which means a letter written in Corinth can be read in Rome without translation. Jewish communities already exist in most major cities, which is where the first Christian preaching lands. Mystery religions, imperial cult, and philosophy all compete in the same marketplace.
- Further afield
- The Han dynasty rules China and trades silk westward along routes that touch the Roman world at second hand. In Britain the Roman conquest begins within a decade of the crucifixion.