38. For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah entered the ark,
39. and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.
40. Two will be in the field; one will be taken, and the other left.
41. Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken, and the other left.
42. “Watch therefore, for you do not know what hour your Lord will come.
43. But know this, that if the owner of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not have let his house be broken into.
44. Therefore you also must be ready, for in an hour when you least expect, the Son of Man is coming.
45. “Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master has made ruler over his household to give them food at the appointed time?
46. Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.
47. Truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods.
48. But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master delays his coming,’