at table while He comes and waits on them.
012:038 And whether it be in the second watch or in the third that He
comes and finds them so, blessed are they.
012:039 Of this be sure, that if the master of the house had known
what time the robber was coming, he would have kept awake
and not have allowed his house to be broken into.
012:040 Be you also ready, for at an hour when you are not expecting
Him the Son of Man will come."
012:041 "Master," said Peter, "are you addressing this parable to us,
or to all alike?"
012:042 "Who, then," replied the Lord, "is the faithful and intelligent
steward whom his Master will put in charge of His household
to serve out their rations at the proper times?
012:043 Blessed is that servant whom his Master when He comes shall
find so doing.
012:044 I tell you truly that He will put him in authority over
all His possessions.
012:045 But if that servant should say in his heart, `My Master is a long
time in coming,' and should begin to beat the menservants
and the maids, and to eat and drink, drinking even to excess;
012:046 that servant's Master will come on a day when he is not expecting
Him and at an hour that he knows not of, and will punish
him severely, and make him share the lot of the unfaithful.
012:047 And that servant who has been told his Master's will
and yet made no preparation and did not obey His will,
will receive many lashes.
012:048 But he who had not been told it and yet did what deserved
the scourge, will receive but few lashes. To whomsoever
much has been given, from him much will be required;
and to whom much has been entrusted, of him a larger amount