For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey;

It is enough for the disciple to be like his teacher, and the servant like his master. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebul, how much more will they malign those of his household.

And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have weeds?'

And he said to them, "Therefore every scribe who has been trained for the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old."

"For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.

"Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.

When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, open to us,' then he will answer you, 'I do not know where you come from.'

For my husband is not at home; he has gone on a long journey;

And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house,

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.

and wherever he enters, say to the master of the house, 'The Teacher says, Where is my guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?'

But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into.

and tell the master of the house, 'The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?'