Rewards and Punishment
41 “Lord,” Peter asked, “are you telling this parable to us or to everyone?”
41 “Lord,” Peter asked, “are you telling this parable to us or to everyone?”
42 The Lord said, “Who then is the faithful and sensible manager his master will put in charge of his household servants to give them their allotted food at the proper time?
43 Blessed is that servant whom the master finds doing his job when he comes.
44 Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.
45 But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,
46 that servant’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know. He will cut him to pieces [Lit him in two] and assign him a place with the unfaithful. [Or unbelievers]
47 And that servant who knew his master’s will and didn’t prepare himself or do it [Lit or do toward his will] will be severely beaten.
43 Blessed is that servant whom the master finds doing his job when he comes.
44 Truly I tell you, he will put him in charge of all his possessions.
45 But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and starts to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and get drunk,
46 that servant’s master will come on a day he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know. He will cut him to pieces [Lit him in two] and assign him a place with the unfaithful. [Or unbelievers]
47 And that servant who knew his master’s will and didn’t prepare himself or do it [Lit or do toward his will] will be severely beaten.
48 But the one who did not know and did what deserved punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be expected."[Or much]
Commentary
(the following are excerpts from Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary, 1706 -- www.christianity.com)
"We are all concerned to take to ourselves what Christ in his word designs for us, and to enquire accordingly concerning it."
"[We] must all watch and pray for Christ's coming, as his servants, yet this that follows is peculiarly adapted to ministers, who are the stewards in Christ's house."
"to give God's children and servants their portion of meat, . . . in due season, at that time and in that way which are most suitable to the temper and condition of those that are to be fed; a word in season to him that is weary."
"they [the Lord's servants] must approve themselves faithful and wise; faithful to their Master, by whom this great trust is reposed in them, and faithful to their fellow-servants, for whose benefit they are put in trust; and wise to improve an opportunity of doing honor to their Master, and service in the family."
"Death and judgment will be very terrible to all wicked people, but especially to wicked ministers. It will be a surprise to them: At an hour when they are not aware."
"The knowledge of our duty is an aggravation of our sin: That servant that knew his lord's will, and yet did his own will, shall be beaten with many stripes."
"Those have greater capacities of mind than others, more knowledge and learning, more acquaintance and converse with the scriptures, to them much is given, and their account will be accordingly."
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