Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

Wise Servants Found Working When The Master Returns Will Be Rewarded

⁴¹ And Peter said, “Lord, are You speaking this parable to us, or also to everyone?” ⁴² And the Lord said, “Who then^[a] is the faithful, wise steward^[b] whom his master will put-in-charge over his body-of-servants, that he might be giving them their food-allowance at the proper-time? ⁴³ Blessed is that slave whom his master, having come, will find so doing. ⁴⁴ Truly I say to you that he will put him in charge over all his possessions. ⁴⁵ But if that slave says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying to come’, and he begins to strike the male-servants and the female-servants, and to eat and drink and get-drunk— ⁴⁶ the master of that slave will come on a day which he does not expect, and at an hour which he does not know. And he will cut him in two, and assign him his part^[c] with the unbelievers^[d]. ⁴⁷ But that slave having known the will of his master, and not having prepared or acted in accordance with his will, will be beaten many blows. ⁴⁸ But the one not having known, and having done things worthy of blows, will be beaten a few blows. And to everyone whom much was given, much will be sought from him. And to whom they entrusted much, they will ask him even more.