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Let him who is in the field not return back to take his cloak.

He will send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of the sky to the other.

But 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.

Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season?

Blessed is that servant, whom his lord will find doing so when he comes.

But if that evil servant should say in his heart, 'My lord is delaying his coming,'

and began to beat his fellow-servants, and eat and drink with the drunken,

and will cut him in pieces, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites; there is where the weeping and grinding of teeth will be.

"For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and delivered his goods to them.

To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each according to his own ability, and he went on his journey.

But he who received the one went away and dug in the earth, and hid his lord's money.

His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'

His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'

But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I didn't scatter.

"But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the holy angels with him, then will he sit on the throne of his glory.

He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

Then the King will tell them on his right hand, 'Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Then will he say also to them on the left hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;

It happened, when Jesus had finished all these words, that he said to his disciples,

a woman came to him having an alabaster jar of very expensive ointment, and she poured it on his head as he sat at the table.