6 And Jesus said, These things may not be spoken out aloud; they never may be written down; they are the messages of Silenceland; they are the Breathings of the inner heart of God.
7 And then the master taught the twelve the lessons they should teach to other men. He sometimes taught in parables; he said,
8 You call to mind the words of yesterday about the coming of the son of man. Now, you shall teach to other men what I have spoken and am speaking unto you;
9 Teach them to pray and not to faint; to be prepared at every moment of the day, for when they least expect him, then the Lord will come.
10 A man went to a distant land and left his house and all his wealth in care of servants; five to guard his house and five to guard his barns and herds.
11 The servants waited long for his return, but he came not, and they grew careless in their work; some spent their time in revelings and drunkenness, and some slept at their posts.
12 And night by night the robbers came and carried off the wealth from house and barn, and drove away the choicest of the herds.
13 And when they knew that much of all the wealth that they were left to guard had been purloined, they said,
14 We cannot be to blame; if we had known the day and hour when our lord would come again we would have guarded well his wealth, and suffered not the thieves to carry it away; he surely is at fault because he told us not.
15 But after many days the lord returned, and when he knew that thieves had robbed him of his wealth, he called his servants and he said to them,