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41 Two women will be grinding at the mill; one will be taken, and one will be left. 42 [a](A)Therefore, stay awake! For you do not know on which day your Lord will come. 43 (B)Be sure of this: if the master of the house had known the hour of night when the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and not let his house be broken into.

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Footnotes

  1. 24:42–44 Cf. Lk 12:39–40. The theme of vigilance and readiness is continued with the bold comparison of the Son of Man to a thief who comes to break into a house.

41 Two women will be grinding with a hand mill; one will be taken and the other left.(A)

42 “Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.(B) 43 But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming,(C) he would have kept watch and would not have let his house be broken into.

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