³⁹But understand this, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. ⁴⁰You also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think he will come.”^*

A Faithful Slave and an Unfaithful Slave

⁴¹And Peter said, “Lord, are you telling this parable for us, or also for everyone?” ⁴²And the Lord said, “Who then is the faithful wise manager whom the master will put in charge over his servants to give them^* their^* food allowance at the right time? ⁴³Blessed is that slave whom his master will find so doing when he^* comes back. ⁴⁴Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge of all his possessions. ⁴⁵But if that slave should say to himself,ⁱ ‘My master is taking a long time to return,’ and he begins to beat the male slaves and the female slaves and to eat and drink and get drunk, ⁴⁶the master of that slave will come on a day that he does not expect and at an hour that he does not know, and will cut him in two and assign his place with the unbelievers.

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Footnotes

*The words “he will come” are not in the Greek text but are implied
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
*Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“comes back”) which is understood as temporal
iLiterally “in his heart”