Luke 12:35-40

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

Keep Watch For Your Master’s Return. Be Prepared

³⁵ Let your waists be girded^[a] and your lamps burning, ³⁶ and you be like people waiting-for their master when he departs from the wedding-celebrations— in order that he having come and having knocked, they may immediately open [the door] for him. ³⁷ Blessed are those slaves whom the master, having come, will find keeping-watch. Truly I say to you that he will gird himself, and have them lie back [to eat]. And having come-to the table, he will serve them. ³⁸ Even if in the second^[b], even if he comes in the third watch and finds them so, blessed are those ones. ³⁹ And you know^[c] this saying— that if the house-master had known at which hour the thief was coming, he would not have permitted his house to be broken-into. ⁴⁰ You also be^[d] prepared ones, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour which you do not expect”.