"And when evening came, the Lord of the vineyard said to his steward, "'Call the workmen and pay them their wages, beginning with the last hired and ending with the first.'

and Joanna, the wife of Chuza, Herod's steward, and Susanna, and many other women, who used to minister to him out of their substance.

"He called to him to him and said: "'What is this that I hear about you? Render an account of your stewardship; for you can no longer be steward.'

"'I know what I will do, so that when I am put out of my stewardship, they may receive me into their houses.'

"And the master praised the unjust steward because he had acted shrewdly; for the sons of this world are in relation to their own generation wiser than the sons of the light.

For if I do this of my own accord, I have my pay; but if unwilling, I have at least discharged my stewardship.

but is under the control of guardians and trustees, until the time appointed by his father.

It is of this I was made a minister, according to the stewardship entrusted to me by God for you, fully to declare God's message;

Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.