“Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning.” And you be like people who wait for their master to return from marriage, so that when he comes and knocks, they will immediately open the door for him. Blessed are those servants whom the master, when he comes, finds awake. Truly I tell you, he will gird himself and make them sit down, and he will come and serve them. And if he comes in the second watch, and in the third watch, and finds them like this, then blessed are those servants. You know that if the owner of the house had known what time the thief would come, he would have been awake and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. Be ready, too, for at an hour you do not think, the Son of Man will come.
Then Peter said to Him:
- Lord! Are you speaking this parable to us, or to everyone?
The Lord said:
“Who is the faithful and prudent steward, whom the master appointed over his servants to distribute to them a measure of bread in due season?” Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, finds doing this. Truly I say to you, he will put him over all his possessions. If that slave says in his heart: “My master will not come soon,” and begins to beat the servants and maidservants, eat and drink and get drunk, then the master of that slave will come on a day on which he does not expect, and at an hour in which he does not think, and will cut him up, and subject him to the same fate as the infidels. The servant who knew the will of his master, and was not ready, and did not do according to his will, will be beaten a lot; but whoever did not know and did something worthy of punishment will receive less punishment. And from everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required, and to whom much has been entrusted, from him will be required more.
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru