37. Blessed are those servants whom the Lord, when he returns, will find being vigilant. Amen I say to you, that he will gird himself and have them sit down to eat, while he, continuing on, will minister to them.
38. And if he will return in the second watch, or if in the third watch, and if he will find them to be so: then blessed are those servants.
39. But know this: that if the father of the family knew at what hour the thief would arrive, he would certainly stand watch, and he would not permit his house to be broken into.
40. You also must be prepared. For the Son of man will return at an hour that you will not realize."
41. Then Peter said to him, "Lord, are you telling this parable to us, or also to everyone?"
42. So the Lord said: "Who do you think is the faithful and prudent steward, whom his Lord has appointed over his family, in order to give them their measure of wheat in due time?
43. Blessed is that servant if, when his Lord will return, he will find him acting in this manner.
44. Truly I say to you, that he will appoint him over all that he possesses.
45. But if that servant will have said in his heart, 'My Lord has made a delay in his return,' and if he has begun to strike the men and women servants, and to eat and drink, and to be inebriated,
46. then the Lord of that servant will return on a day which he hoped not, and at an hour which he knew not. And he will separate him, and he will place his portion with that of the unfaithful.
47. And that servant, who knew the will of his Lord, and who did not prepare and did not act according to his will, will be beaten many times over.
48. Yet he who did not know, and who acted in a way that deserves a beating, will be beaten fewer times. So then, of all to whom much has been given, much will be required. And of those to whom much has been entrusted, even more will be asked.
49. I have come to cast a fire upon the earth. And what should I desire, except that it may be kindled?
50. And I have a baptism, with which I am to be baptized. And how I am constrained, even until it may be accomplished!
51. Do you think that I have come to give peace to the earth? No, I tell you, but division.
52. For from this time on, there will be five in one house: divided as three against two, and as two against three.
53. A father will be divided against a son, and a son against his father; a mother against a daughter and a daughter against a mother; a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
54. And he also said to the crowds: "When you see a cloud rising from the setting of the sun, immediately you say, 'A rain cloud is coming.' And so it does.