41. And Peter said to him, Lord, sayest thou this parable to us, or also to all?
42. And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and prudent steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give the measure of corn in season?
43. Blessed is that bondman whom his lord on coming shall find doing thus;
44. verily I say unto you, that he will set him over all that he has.
45. But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come, and begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and to drink and to be drunken,
46. the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of, and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers.
47. But that bondman who knew his own lord's will, and had not prepared himself nor done his will, shall be beaten with many stripes;