₃₂“Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father is pleased to give you the Kingdom. ₃₃Sell all your belongings and give the money to the poor. Provide for yourselves purses that don't wear out, and save your riches in heaven, where they will never decrease, because no thief can get to them, and no moth can destroy them. ₃₄For your heart will always be where your riches are.

₃₅“Be ready for whatever comes, dressed for action and with your lamps lit, ₃₆like servants who are waiting for their master to come back from a wedding feast. When he comes and knocks, they will open the door for him at once. ₃₇How happy are those servants whose master finds them awake and ready when he returns! I tell you, he will take off his coat, ask them to sit down, and will wait on them. ₃₈How happy they are if he finds them ready, even if he should come at midnight or even later! ₃₉And you can be sure that if the owner of a house knew the time when the thief would come, he would not let the thief break into his house. ₄₀And you, too, must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you are not expecting him.”