36About that day and hour no one knows, neither the angels of the heavens nor the son, except the father alone.37For just as the days of Noah were, so will be the coming of the son of a human.38For as they were in the days before the flood, eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark,39and they did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so will be the coming of the son of a human.40Then two will be in the field; one is taken and one is released.41Two will be grinding at the millstone; one is taken and one is released.42Keep watch therefore, for you do not know on what day your lord comes.43But know this, that if the householder had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have kept watch and would not have allowed his home to be broken into.44Because of this you also must be ready, for at an hour you do not think the son of a human comes.45Who then is the faithful and thoughtful slave whom the lord appointed over his household to give them their food at the proper time?46Blessed is that slave whom his lord, when he comes, will find so doing.47Amen I say to you that he will appoint him over all his possessions.48But if that evil slave should say in his heart, 'My lord delays,'49and should begin to strike his fellow slaves, and to eat and drink with those who get drunk,50the lord of that slave will come on a day when he does not look for him and at an hour he does not know,51and will cut him in two and assign his part with the hypocrites; there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.