Luke 12:39-48

³⁹Nowe vnderstand this, that if the good man of the house had knowen at what houre the theefe would haue come, he would haue watched, and would not haue suffered his house to be digged through.

⁴⁰Be ye also prepared therefore: for the Sonne of man will come at an houre when ye thinke not.

⁴¹Then Peter saide vnto him, Master, tellest thou this parable vnto vs, or euen to all?

⁴²And the Lord saide, Who is a faithfull steward and wise, whom the master shall make ruler ouer his householde, to giue them their portion of meate in season?

⁴³Blessed is that seruant, whom his master when he commeth, shall finde so doing.

⁴⁴Of a trueth I say vnto you, that he wil make him ruler ouer all that he hath.

⁴⁵But if that seruant say in his heart, My master doeth deferre his comming, and ginne to smite the seruants, and maydens, and to eate, and drinke, and to be drunken,

⁴⁶The master of that seruant will come in a day when he thinketh not, and at an houre when he is not ware of, and will cut him off, and giue him his portion with the vnbeleeuers.

⁴⁷And that seruant that knewe his masters will, and prepared not himselfe, neither did according to his will, shalbe beaten with many stripes.

⁴⁸But he that knewe it not, and yet did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with fewe stripes: for vnto whomsoeuer much is giuen, of him shalbe much required, and to whom men much commit, the more of him will they aske.