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... [lamps] lit; and you [be] like men who wait for their lord, when he should return from the wedding feast, so that when he comes and knocks, they may immediately open to him. Blessed are those servants whom the lord, when he comes, shall find watchful. Truly I say to you, that he will gird his loins and make them sit at table, and passing by, he will serve them. And if he should come in the second or in the third watch, and find [them] so, blessed are those servants. But know this: that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and not permitted [his] house to be dug through. You also, be ready; for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man comes." Peter said, "Lord, did You speak this parable to us, or to all?" And the Lord said, "Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his master has appointed over his household to give [them their] portion of food in [due] season? Blessed is that servant whom his master, having come, shall find doing so. Truly I say to you, that he will set him over all his possessions. But if that servant should say in his heart, 'My master delays in coming,' and should begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink and become drunk, [the master of that servant] will come...