40. “And you, then, be ready, for the Son of Aḏam is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
41. And Kĕpha said to Him, “Master, do You speak this parable to us, or also to all?”
42. And the Master said, “Who then is the trustworthy and wise manager, whom his master shall appoint over his household, to give the portion of food in due season?
43. “Blessed is that servant whom his master shall find so doing when he comes.
44. “Truly, I say to you that he shall appoint him over all his possessions.
45. “But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat the male servants and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,
46. the master of that servant shall come on a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour that he does not know, and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the unbelievers.