Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Wise Servants Found Working When The Master Returns Will Be Put In Charge of More

⁴⁵ “Who then^[a] is the faithful and wise slave whom his master put-in-charge^[b] over his body-of-servants^[c] that he might give them their food at the proper-time? ⁴⁶ Blessed is that slave whom his master, having come, will find so doing. ⁴⁷ Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge over all his possessions. ⁴⁸ But if that bad slave says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying’, ⁴⁹ and begins to strike his fellow-slaves, and is eating and drinking with the ones being drunk— ⁵⁰ the master of that slave will come on a day which he does not expect, and at an hour which he does not know. ⁵¹ And he will cut him in two, and assign him his part^[d] with the hypocrites. In that place, there will be the weeping and the grinding of teeth.