^{37 Ref} `Happy those servants, whom the lord, having come, shall find watching; verily I say to you, that he will gird himself, and will cause them to recline (at meat), and having come near, will minister to them;

^{38 Ref} and if he may come in the second watch, and in the third watch he may come, and may find `it' so, happy are those servants.

^{39 Ref} `And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through;

^{40 Ref} and ye, then, become ye ready, because at the hour ye think not, the Son of Man doth come.'

^{41 Ref} And Peter said to him, `Sir, unto us this simile dost thou speak, or also unto all?'

^{42 Ref} And the Lord said, `Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure?

⁴³ Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so;