33. Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Make money-bags for yourselves that won’t grow old, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.
34. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
35. “Be ready for service and have your lamps lit.
36. You must be like people waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once.
37. Those slaves the master will find alert when he comes will be blessed. I assure you: He will get ready, have them recline at the table, then come and serve them.
38. If he comes in the middle of the night, or even near dawn, and finds them alert, those slaves are blessed.
39. But know this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
40. You also be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect.”
41. “Lord,” Peter asked, “are You telling this parable to us or to everyone? ”
42. The Lord said: “Who then is the faithful and sensible manager his master will put in charge of his household servants to give them their allotted food at the proper time?
43. That slave whose master finds him working when he comes will be rewarded.