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³⁹你們應該明白這一點：如果家主知道盜賊何時要來，【他必要醒寤，】決不容自己的房屋被挖穿。

³⁹But this know ye, that if the householder did know at what hour the thief would come, he would surely watch, and would not suffer his house to be broken open.

⁴⁰你們也應當準備，因為在你們不料想的時辰，人子就來了。」

⁴⁰Be you then also ready: for at what hour you think not, the Son of man will come.

⁴¹伯多祿說：「主，你講的這個比喻，是為我們呢，還是為眾人？」

⁴¹And Peter said to him: Lord, dost thou speak this parable to us, or likewise to all?

⁴²主說：「究竟誰是那忠信及精明的管家，主人派他管理自己的家僕，按時配給食糧？

⁴²And the Lord said: Who (thinkest thou) is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord setteth over his family, to give them their measure of wheat in due season?

⁴³主人來時，看見他如此行事，那僕人纔是有福的。

⁴³Blessed is that servant, whom when his lord shall come, he shall find so doing.

⁴⁴我實在告訴你們：主人必要委派他，管理自己的一切財產。

⁴⁴Verily I say to you, he will set him over all that he possesseth.

⁴⁵如果那個僕人心裡說：我主人必然遲來；他便開始拷打僕婢，也吃也喝也醉酒。

⁴⁵But if that servant shall say in his heart: My lord is long a coming; and shall begin to strike the menservants and maidservants, and to eat and to drink and be drunk:

⁴⁶在他不期待的日子，不知覺的時刻，那僕人的主人要來，必要剷除他，使他與不信者遭受同樣的命運。

⁴⁶The lord of that servant will come in the day that he hopeth not, and at the hour that he knoweth not, and shall separate him, and shall appoint him his portion with unbelievers.

⁴⁷那知道主人的旨意，而偏不準備，或竟不奉行他旨意的僕人，必然要多受拷打；

⁴⁷And that servant who knew the will of his lord, and prepared not himself, and did not according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

⁴⁸那不知道而做了應受拷打之事的，要少受拷打。給誰的多，向誰要的也多；交托誰的多，向誰索取的也格外多。」

⁴⁸But he that knew not, and did things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. And unto whomsoever much is given, of him much shall be required: and to whom they have committed much, of him they will demand the more.