32. But learn the parable from the fig-tree: When already its branch becomes tender and produces leaves, ye know that the summer is near.
33. Thus also ye, when ye see all these things, know that it is near, at the doors.
34. Verily I say to you, This generation will not have passed away until all these things shall have taken place.
35. The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall in no wise pass away.
36. But of that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of the heavens, but my Father alone.
37. But as the days of Noe, so also shall be the coming of the Son of man.
38. For as they were in the days which were before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day on which Noe entered into the ark,
39. and they knew not till the flood came and took all away; thus also shall be the coming of the Son of man.
40. Then two shall be in the field, one is taken and one is left;
41. two women grinding at the mill, one is taken and one is left.
42. Watch therefore, for ye know not in what hour your Lord comes.
43. But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched and not have suffered his house to be dug through into.
44. Wherefore ye also, be ye ready, for in that hour that ye think not the Son of man comes.
45. Who then is the faithful and prudent bondman whom his lord has set over his household, to give them food in season?
46. Blessed is that bondman whom his lord on coming shall find doing thus.
47. Verily I say unto you, that he will set him over all his substance.
48. But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come,
49. and begin to beat his fellow-bondmen, and eat and drink with the drunken;