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Pay attention to this: If the homeowner had known when the thief would arrive, he wouldn’t have let his house be broken into. 

You also need to be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour you don’t expect.

Peter asked: 

“Lord, did you tell this parable only for us, or for everyone?” 

And the Lord replied: 

“Imagine, then, the wise and faithful steward, whom the master puts in charge of his other servants to give them wheat at the right time. 

Blessed is that servant if his master, upon returning, finds him doing his job.

Truly, I say to you, the master will put him in charge of all his possessions.

But it may be that the steward thinks, ‘My Lord delays in coming,’ and he begins to abuse the male servants and the servant girls, eating, drinking, and getting drunk. 

Then the master will come on a day he does not expect and at an hour he doesn’t know. He will cut him off and send him to the same fate as the unfaithful.

The servant who knew his master’s will but did not prepare or do what his master wanted will be severely punished; 

however, the one who unintentionally does what deserves punishment will receive fewer blows. Much will be required of the one who has been given much, and more will be demanded of the one who has been entrusted with more.