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Luke 16:7

First Nations Version

“He then said to another, ‘How much do you owe?’ ‘One hundred baskets of wheat,’ he answered. ‘Make it to be eighty,’ the overseer said back to him.

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So he sent a third messenger, but they did the same things to him. “The tribal member who owned the vineyard was at the end of his rope.


Then he turned again to the people and began to tell them this story. “A tribal member planted a large vineyard and rented it out to other tribal members for a share of the grapes. Then he traveled far away to another land to stay for a long time.


“But that same servant went to one of his fellow servants who owed him only a small horse blanket. He took hold of the man’s throat and said, ‘Pay me all that you owe!’


‘One hundred containers of oil,’ the man answered. ‘Make it to be fifty,’ the overseer told him.


“When the rich man found out what the dishonest overseer had done, he shook his head but admired the man’s craftiness. “Do you see what this means?” Creator Sets Free (Jesus) asked. “The children of darkness are sometimes wiser in the ways of this world than the children of light are in the ways of the spirit-world above.





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