12 It matters not when he shall come; it may be at the second watch; it may be at the third; but blessed are the servants who are ready to receive.
13 You cannot leave your door ajar and go to sleep, and wait in blissful ignorance of the fleeting time;
14 For thieves will surely come and take away your goods and bind and carry you away to robbers’ dens.
15 And if you are not carried forth, the Master when he comes will not regard a sleeping guard as friend, but as a foe.
16 Beloved, these are times when every man must be awake and at his post, for none can tell the hour nor the day when man shall be revealed.
17 And Peter said, Lord is this parable for us, or for the multitudes?
18 And Jesus said, Why need you ask? God is not man that he should show respect for one and cast another off.
19 Whoever will may come and gird himself, and trim his lamp, and find a turret in the tower of life where he may watch, and be prepared to meet the Lord.
20 But you, as children of the light, have come, and you have learned the language of the court, and may stand forth and lead the way.
21 But you may wait, and think that you are ready to receive the Lord, and still he does not come.