³⁹ and they knew not till the flood came and took all away; thus also shall be the coming of the Son of man.

⁴⁰ Then two shall be in the field, one is taken and one is left;

⁴¹ two [women] grinding at the mill, one is taken and one is left.

⁴² Watch therefore, for ye know not in what hour your Lord comes.

⁴³ But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched and not have suffered his house to be dug through [into].

⁴⁴ Wherefore *ye* also, be ye ready, for in that hour that ye think not the Son of man comes.

⁴⁵ Who then is the faithful and prudent bondman whom his lord has set over his household, to give them food in season?

⁴⁶ Blessed is that bondman whom his lord on coming shall find doing thus.

⁴⁷ Verily I say unto you, that he will set him over all his substance.

⁴⁸ But if that evil bondman should say in his heart, My lord delays to come,

⁴⁹ and begin to beat his fellow-bondmen, and eat and drink with the drunken;

⁵⁰ the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he does not expect it, and in an hour he knows not of,