30. For all the nations of the world seek after these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
31. Instead, seek hiskingdom, and these things will be added to you.
32. “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.
33. Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
34. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
35. “Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning,
36. and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks.
37. Blessed are those servantswhom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them.
38. If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants!
39. But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, hewould not have left his house to be broken into.
40. You also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
41. Peter said, “Lord, are you telling this parable for us or for all?”