24:42 “Therefore stay alert, because you do not know on what day 5 your Lord will come. 24:43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief 6 was coming, he would have been alert and would not have let his house be broken into. 24:44 Therefore you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect him. 7
24:45 “Who then is the faithful and wise slave, 8 whom the master has put in charge of his household, to give the other slaves 9 their food at the proper time? 24:46 Blessed is that slave whom the master finds at work 10 when he comes. 24:47 I tell you the truth, 11 the master 12 will put him in charge of all his possessions. 24:48 But if 13 that evil slave should say to himself, 14 ‘My master is staying away a long time,’ 24:49 and he begins to beat his fellow slaves and to eat and drink with drunkards, 24:50 then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee, 24:51 and will cut him in two, 15 and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.