42 Våk derfor! for I vet ikke hvad dag eders Herre kommer.

43 Men det skal I vite at dersom husbonden visste i hvilken nattevakt tyven kom, da vilde han våke, og ikke la nogen bryte inn i sitt hus.

44 Derfor vær også I rede! for Menneskesønnen kommer i den time I ikke tenker.

42 Be watching, then! for you have no knowledge on what day your Lord will come.

43 But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.

44 Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come.