40. Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not, the Son of man will come.
41. And Peter said to him: Lord, dost thou speak this parable to us, or likewise to all?
42. And the Lord said: Who (thinkest thou) is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord setteth over his family, to give them their measure of wheat in due season?
43. Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come, he shall find so doing.
44. Verily I say to you, he will set him over all that he possesseth.
45. But if that servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming; and shall begin to strike the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and to drink and be drunk:
46. The lord of that servant will come in the day that he hopeth not, and at the hour that he knoweth not, and shall separate him, and shall appoint him his portion with unbelievers.
47. And that servant who knew the will of his lord, and prepared not himself, and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
48. But he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. And unto whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required: and to whom they have committed much, of him they will demand the more.
49. I am come to cast fire on the earth; and what will I, but that it be kindled?
50. And I have a baptism wherewith I am to be baptized: and how am I straitened until it be accomplished?
51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.
52. For there shall be from henceforth five in one house divided: three against two, and two against three.
53. The father shall be divided against the son, and the son against his father, the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother, the mother in law against her daughter in law, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
54. And he said also to the multitudes: When you see a cloud rising from the west, presently you say: A shower is coming: and so it happeneth:
55. And when ye see the south wind blow, you say: There will be heat: and it cometh to pass.
56. You hypocrites, you know how to discern the face of the heaven and of the earth: but how is it that you do not discern this time?
57. And why even of yourselves, do you not judge that which is just?
58. And when thou goest with thy adversary to the prince, whilst thou art in the way, endeavour to be delivered from him: lest perhaps he draw thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the exacter, and the exacter cast thee into prison.
59. I say to thee, thou shalt not go out thence, until thou pay the very last mite.