32 Fear not, Uttle flock ; for it is your Father's good pleasure to g^ve yoa the kingdom.
33 Sell that ye haye, and give alms ; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief ap- proaeheth, neither moth corruptetn.
34 For where vour treasore is, there will yonr heart be also.
36 Let yoiir loins be girded about, and your lights burning ;
36 And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding ; that when he Cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.
37 Blessed are those seryants, whom
the lord when he cometh shall find watching : verily I say unto you, that he shall ^d himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.
38 And if he shall come in the second watch, or come in the third watch, and find them so, blessed are those servants.
39 And this know, that if the good- man of the house had known what hour the thief would come, he would have watched, and not have suffered Mb house to be broken through.
40 Be ye therefore ready also : for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.
Let us mark tchat a gracious word of consolation this passage contains for all true believers. The Lord Jesus knew well the hearts of His disciples. He knew how ready