38. They will be blessed if he comes in the second or third watch, and finds them so.
39. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.
40. Therefore be ready also, for the Son of Man is coming in an hour that you don’t expect him.”
41. Peter said to him, “Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or to everybody?”
42. The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord will set over his household, to give them their portion of food at the right times?
43. Blessed is that servant whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.
44. Truly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has.
45. But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
46. then the lord of that servant will come in a day when he isn’t expecting him, and in an hour that he doesn’t know, and will cut him in two, and place his portion with the unfaithful.
47. That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
48. but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
49. “I came to throw fire on the earth. I wish it were already kindled.
50. But I have a immersion to be immersed with, and how distressed I am until it is accomplished!
51. Do you think that I have come to give peace in the earth? I tell you, no, but rather division.
52. For from now on, there will be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.
53. They will be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.”
54. He said to the multitudes also, “When you see a cloud rising from the west, immediately you say, ‘A shower is coming,’ and so it happens.
55. When a south wind blows, you say, ‘There will be a scorching heat,’ and it happens.
56. You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how is it that you don’t interpret this time?