35Let your loins be girded and your lamps burning.36And you be like people waiting for their lord, so that when he departs from the wedding and comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately.37Blessed are those slaves whom the lord, when he comes, will find keeping watch. Truly I say to you that he will gird himself and have them recline, and passing by he will serve them.38And if he comes in the second or even in the third watch and finds them so, blessed are those.39But know this: if the householder had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into.40You also must be ready, because the son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.41Then Peter said, Lord, are you telling this parable to us or also to all?42And the lord said, Who then is the faithful and thoughtful manager whom the lord will appoint over his service to give the grain ration at the proper time?43Blessed is that slave whom his lord, when he comes, will find doing so.44Truly I say to you that he will appoint him over all his possessions.45But if that slave says in his heart, My lord is delaying his coming, and begins to beat the children and the maidservants, to eat and drink and get drunk,46The lord of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in two and assign his portion with the unbelieving.47And that slave who knew his lord's will and did not prepare or act according to his will will be beaten with many blows.48But the one who did not know and did things worthy of blows will be beaten with few. From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required, and from the one to whom they entrusted much, they will demand still more.