And Mary said, “Behold, I am the servant of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word.” And the angel departed from her.

for he has looked on the humble estate of his servant. For behold, from now on all generations will call me blessed;

He has helped his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy,

and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,

“Lord, now you are letting your servant depart in peace, according to your word;

Jesus Heals a Centurion's Servant

After he had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum.

Now a centurion had a servant who was sick and at the point of death, who was highly valued by him.

When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent to him elders of the Jews, asking him to come and heal his servant.

Therefore I did not presume to come to you. But say the word, and let my servant be healed.

For I too am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me: and I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes; and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes; and to my servant, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”

And when those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the servant well.

Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.

But if that servant says to himself, ‘My master is delayed in coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces and put him with the unfaithful.

And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating.

And at the time for the banquet he sent his servant to say to those who had been invited, ‘Come, for everything is now ready.’

So the servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house became angry and said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly to the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in the poor and crippled and blind and lame.’

And the servant said, ‘Sir, what you commanded has been done, and still there is room.’

And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.

No servant can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”

Unworthy Servants

“Will any one of you who has a servant plowing or keeping sheep say to him when he has come in from the field, ‘Come at once and recline at table’?

Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded?

And he said to him, ‘Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very little, you shall have authority over ten cities.’

He said to him, ‘I will condemn you with your own words, you wicked servant! You knew that I was a severe man, taking what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?

When the time came, he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they would give him some of the fruit of the vineyard. But the tenants beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

And he sent another servant. But they also beat and treated him shamefully, and sent him away empty-handed.

And one of them struck the servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear.

Then a servant girl, seeing him as he sat in the light and looking closely at him, said, “This man also was with him.”