Luke 12:37-39

The Voice

³⁷ How fortunate those servants will be when the master knocks and they open the door immediately! You know what the master will do? He’ll put on an apron, sit them down at the kitchen table, and he’ll serve them a midnight snack. ³⁸ The later he comes home—whether it’s at midnight or even later, just before dawn—the more fortunate the alert servants will be.

³⁹ In contrast, imagine a complacent, apathetic household manager whose house gets robbed. If he had been aware that thieves were waiting in the bushes and what hour they were coming, [he would have watched and]^[a] he never would have left the house!