35 "Be ready for service [a] and have your lamps lit.
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You must be like people waiting for their master to return [b] from the wedding banquet so that when he comes and knocks, they can open [the door] for him at once.
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Those slaves the master will find alert when he comes will be blessed. I assure you: He will get ready, [c] have them recline at the table, then come and serve them.
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If he comes in the middle of the night, or even near dawn, [d] and finds them alert, those slaves are blessed.
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But know this: if the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.
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You also be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect."