Morning Bible Study: Luke 12:35-40

Ready for the Master’s Return

35 “Be ready for service [Lit “Let your loins be girded; an idiom for tying up loose outer clothing in preparation for action;" Ex 12:11] and have your lamps lit. 

36 You are to be like people waiting for their master to return from the wedding banquet so that when he comes and knocks, they can open the door for him at once. 

37 Blessed will be those servants the master finds alert when he comes. Truly I tell you, he will get ready, [Lit will gird himself] have them recline at the table, then come and serve them. 

38 If he comes in the middle of the night, or even near dawn,[Lit even in the second or third watch] and finds them alert, blessed are those servants. 

39 But know this: If the homeowner had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into. 

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

Commentary
(the following is from Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary, 1706 -- www.christianity.com)

"Christ is our Master, and we are his servants; not only working servants, but waiting servants. We must be as men that wait for their lord, that sit up while he stays out late, to be ready to receive him. In this Christ alluded to his own ascension to heaven, his coming to call his people to him by death, and his return to judge the world. 

We are uncertain as to the time of his coming to us, we should therefore be always ready. If men thus take care of their houses, let us be thus wise for our souls. Be ye therefore ready also; as ready as the good man of the house would be, if he knew at what hour the thief would come."