Luke 16:5 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁵ So, he called on each one of his master’s customers and said to the first one, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ So he called every one of his lord's debtors unto him, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ So he summoned his master's debtors one by one, and he said to the first, How much do you owe my master?

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ And calling to him each one of his lord’s debtors, he said to the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?

Common English Bible

⁵ “One by one, the manager sent for each person who owed his master money. He said to the first, ‘How much do you owe my master?’

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ And so, calling together each one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first, 'How much do you owe my lord?'

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Therefore calling together every one of his lord's debtors, he said to the first: How much dost thou owe my lord?

Luke 16:5 Cross References

Matthew 18:24

When he began figuring, one of his servants, who owed him a huge sum of money [Note: The amount is variously estimated to be in the multiple millions of dollars in 2005], was brought to him.

Matthew 18:28

But that [same] servant went out and found one of his fellow-servants who owed him a small sum of money [Note: The amount was about 100 twelve hour days of a farm laborer’s pay or about $10,800 in 2005]. He grabbed him by the throat, saying, ‘Pay [me] what you owe.’

Matthew 6:12

And forgive us of the wrongs we have done to others, since we have also forgiven the wrongs done to us.

Luke 16:4

I know what I will do, so when I am fired they [i.e., his master’s customers] will welcome me into their homes.’

Luke 16:6

And he replied, ‘Eight hundred gallons of [olive] oil.’ And he said to him, ‘Take your contract and quickly sit down and write in four hundred [gallons].’