urselves purses that wax not old, a treasure never failing in the
heavens, where no thief approaches, nor doth the moth destroy. (34)For
where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

(35)Let your loins be firmly girded round, and your lamps burning:
(36)and ye like men, expecting their master, when he shall return from
the marriage; that when he comes and knocks, they may instantly open
the door for him. (37)Blessed are those servants, whom the Master, when
he cometh, shall find watchful: verily I say unto you, that he will
gird up himself, and make them sit down at table, and come and wait
upon them. (38)And if he come in the second watch, or in the third
watch, and find them so watchful, blessed are those servants. (39)Now
this be assured of, that if the master of the family had known at what
hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have
suffered his house to be broken through. (40)Therefore be ye also
ready, for at an hour that ye think not of, the Son of man cometh.

(41)Then said Peter unto him, Lord, speakest thou this parable to us,
or also for all? (42)And the Lord said, Who indeed is a faithful
steward, and prudent, whom the lord will place over his household, to
give them their proportion of provision at the proper season?
(43)Blessed is that servant, whom his lord, when he cometh, shall find
so employed. (44)Verily I say unto you, that he will place him over all
his property. (45)But if that servant say in his heart, My master will
be a long while ere he comes; and shall begin to beat the men and
maid-servants, and to eat and to drink, and to get drunk; (46)the
master of that servant will come in a day when he doth not expect him,
and at an hour which he knoweth not, and shall cut him asunder, and
give him his portion with the unfaithful. (47)And that servant, who
knew his master's will, and made no preparation for him, nor did
according to his pleasure, shall be beaten with many stripes. (48)But
he that knew it not, yet did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten
with few. For of every one to whom much is given, much shall be
required from him: and to whom men commit much, they will of him demand
abundantly more.

(49)I am come to cast fire on the earth, and what is my wish? that it
may be now kindled. (50)But I have a baptism to be baptised with; and
how am I distressed in spirit till it is finished! (51)Think ye that I
came to bring peace upon earth? No, I tell you; but