40. Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not, the Son of man will come.
41. And Peter said to him: Lord, dost thou speak this parable to us, or likewise to all?
42. And the Lord said: Who (thinkest thou) is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord setteth over his family, to give them their measure of wheat in due season?
43. Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come, he shall find so doing.
44. Verily I say to you, he will set him over all that he possesseth.
45. But if that servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming; and shall begin to strike the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and to drink and be drunk: