Matthew 24:32-51

³²"Now from the fig tree learn her parable. When its branch has now become tender, and puts forth its leaves, you know that the summer is near. ³³Even so you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. ³⁴Most assuredly I tell you, this generation will not pass away, until all these things are accomplished. ³⁵Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away. ³⁶But no one knows of that day and hour, not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only. ³⁷As the days of Noah, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. ³⁸For as in those days which were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, ³⁹and they didn`t know until the flood came, and took them all away, so will be the coming of the Son of Man. <sup>40</sup>Then will two men be in the field: one is taken, and one is left; <sup>41</sup>two women grinding at the mill, one is taken, and one is left. <sup>42</sup>Watch therefore, for you don`t know in what hour your Lord comes. ⁴³But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have allowed his house to be broken into. ⁴⁴Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don`t expect, the Son of Man will come.

⁴⁵Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season? ⁴⁶Blessed is that servant, whom his lord will find doing so when he comes. ⁴⁷Most assuredly I tell you, that he will set him over all that he has. ⁴⁸But if that evil servant should say in his heart, `My lord is delaying his coming,` ⁴⁹and began to beat his fellow-servants, and eat and drink with the drunken, ⁵⁰the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn`t expect it, and in an hour when he doesn`t know it, ⁵¹and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.