Luke 16:4

4 Aha! I know what I'll do -- something that will make people welcome me into their homes after I've lost my job here!'

Luke 16:4 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 16:4

I am resolved what to do
Or "I know what to do"; I have a scheme in my head, and I am determined to execute it, which will provide for me, and secure me a maintenance:

that when I am put out of the stewardship;
drove from Jerusalem, and from the temple and the synagogues:

they may receive me into their houses;
either Jews or Gentiles, after their dispersion.

Luke 16:4 In-Context

2 So he summoned him and asked him, `What is this I hear about you? Turn in your accounts, for you can no longer be manager.'

3 "`What am I to do?' said the manager to himself. `My boss is firing me, I'm not strong enough to dig ditches, and I'm ashamed to go begging.

4 Aha! I know what I'll do -- something that will make people welcome me into their homes after I've lost my job here!'

5 "So, after making appointments with each of his employer's debtors, he said to the first, `How much do you owe my boss?'

6 `Eight hundred gallons of olive oil,' he replied. `Take your note back,' he told him. `Now, quickly! Sit down and write one for four hundred!'