“And be prepared to move quickly and keep your lamps burning.
Keep alert like men who are waiting for the groom to return to the marriage feast, so that when he comes and knocks on the door you are ready to answer it and let him in quickly.
Blessed are the servants who the Lord finds waiting for his return. When he comes, he will gather his faithful servants together and sit down to a meal with them and serve them.
Blessed are the servants who are ready for their Lord to come, even when he is least expected. So be ready, for he will come at a time when you don’t think he is coming.
Peter then asked the Lord if these parables were for the disciples only or for everyone.”
Jesus answered,
“Blessed is the wise steward who is found doing his master’s will when he comes. That faithful servant will be put in charge of much more after the master returns.
But woe to the servant who thinks, ‘My Lord is going to be late coming, so I may mistreat the servants under me, and eat and drink and become drunk without any regard for the Lord’s coming.‘
The Lord will come on a day that the servant does not expect, and he will be punished severely.
The servant who acts disobediently, out of ignorance, will receive a lesser punishment.
To everyone who has been given much, much shall be required.
I came to rouse men to spiritual conflict. Do not think that I have come to give peace on the earth. No, but rather division.
In the future, five in one house will be divided; three will be of one mind and two of another.
A father will be divided against his son, and a son against his father; mother against daughter and daughter against her mother; mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and the daughter in law against her mother-in-law.”
Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and said,
“When you see a cloud rising in the west, you know that it is going to rain. And so, it does. And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, there will be a scorching heat, and so it happens.
You hypocrites, you know how to interpret the weather and the sky; but you don’t know how to interpret these present times.”
