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Kefa said, "Sir, are you telling this parable for our benefit only or for everyone's?"
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The Lord replied, "Nu, who is the faithful and sensible manager whose master puts him in charge of the household staff to give them their share of food at the proper time?
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It will go well with that servant if he is found doing his job when his master comes.
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Yes, I tell you he will put him in charge of all he owns.
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But if that servant says to himself, `My master is taking his time coming,' and starts bullying the men- and women-servants, and eating and drinking, getting drunk,
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then his master will come on a day when the servant isn't expecting him, at a time he doesn't know in advance; his master will cut him in two and put him with the disloyal.
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Now the servant who knew what his master wanted but didn't prepare or act according to his will, will be whipped with many lashes;
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however, the one who did what deserves a beating, but didn't know, will receive few lashes. From him who has been given much, much will be demanded -- from someone to whom people entrust much, they ask still more.
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"I have come to set fire to the earth! And how I wish it were already kindled!
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I have an immersion to undergo -- how pressured I feel till it's over!
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Do you think that I have come to bring peace in the Land? Not peace, I tell you, but division!