33. Be on your guard [constantly alert], and watch and pray; for you do not know when the time will come.
34. It is like a man [already] going on a journey; when he leaves home, he puts his servants in charge, each with his particular task, and he gives orders to the doorkeeper to be constantly alert and on the watch.
35. Therefore watch (give strict attention, be cautious and alert), for you do not know when the Master of the house is coming–in the evening, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning–
36. [Watch, I say] lest He come suddenly and unexpectedly and find you asleep.
37. And what I say to you I say to everybody: Watch (give strict attention, be cautious, active, and alert)!