Luke 12:40-53

40You too, be continually ready; because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect.”

41Peter said, “Lord, are You addressing this parable to us [disciples], or to everyone else as well?”

42The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and wise steward [of the estate], whom his master will put in charge over his household, to give his servants their portion of food at the proper time?

43Blessed (happy, prosperous, to be admired) is that servant whom his master finds so doing when he arrives.

44I assure you and most solemnly say to you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.

45But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is taking his time in coming,’ and begins to beat the servants, both men and women, and to eat and drink and get drunk,

46the master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know, and will cut him in pieces, and assign him a place with the unbelievers.

47And that servant who knew his master’s will, and yet did not get ready or act in accord with his will, will be beaten with many lashes [of the whip],

48but the one who did not know it and did things worthy of a beating, will receive only a few [lashes]. From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.

49“I have come to cast fire (judgment) on the earth; and how I wish that it were already kindled!

50I have a baptism [of great suffering] with which to be baptized, and how [greatly] I am distressed until it is accomplished!

51Do you suppose that I came to grant peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division [between believers and unbelievers];

52for from now on five in one household will be divided [over Me], three against two and two against three.

53They will be divided, father against son and son against father, mother against daughter and daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.”