Luke 16 - Summary

The parable of the dishonest steward who shrewdly reduces debts to secure future welcome teaches the children of light to use unrighteous wealth wisely to make eternal friends, with faithfulness in little preceding faithfulness in much. Jesus' teaching that no servant can serve two masters and that what is exalted among men is abomination before God prompts Pharisaic scoffing, while affirmations about the Law's enduring validity and the sin of divorce and remarriage follow. The rich man and Lazarus parable depicts reversal after death, with the beggar comforted in Abraham's bosom while the rich man torments in Hades, unable to warn his brothers since if they will not hear Moses and the Prophets, neither will one rising from the dead persuade them.