35"1Be dressed in 2readiness, and keep your lampslit.
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"Be likemen who are waiting for their masterwhen he returns from the weddingfeast, so that they may immediatelyopen the door to him when he comes and knocks.
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"Blessed are thoseslaveswhom the master will find3on the alert when he comes; truly I say to you, that 4he will gird himself to serve, and have them recline at the table, and will come up and wait on them.
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"5Whether he comes in the secondwatch, oreven in the third, and finds them so, blessed are those slaves.
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"6But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at whathour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be 7broken into.
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"8You too, be ready; for the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect."