43. Happy are the servants whom the master finds fulfilling their responsibilities when he comes.
44. I assure you that the master will put them in charge of all his possessions.
45. “But suppose that these servants should say to themselves, My master is taking his time about coming. And suppose they began to beat the servants, both men and women, and to eat, drink, and get drunk.
46. The master of those servants would come on a day when they weren’t expecting him, at a time they couldn’t predict. The master will cut them into pieces and assign them a place with the unfaithful.
47. That servant who knew his master’s will but didn’t prepare for it or act on it will be beaten severely.
48. The one who didn’t know the master’s will but who did things deserving punishment will be beaten only a little. Much will be demanded from everyone who has been given much, and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be asked.
49. "I came to cast fire upon the earth. How I wish that it was already ablaze!
50. I have a baptism I must experience. How I am distressed until it’s completed!
51. Do you think that I have come to bring peace to the earth? No, I tell you, I have come instead to bring division.
52. From now on, a household of five will be divided—three against two and two against three.