No pupil is better than his teacher, and no slave is better than his master.

The pupil should be satisfied to become like his teacher, and the slave should be satisfied to become like his master. If men have called the Head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they heap upon the members of His family!

And the farmer's slaves came up to him and said, 'Master, did you not sow good seed in your field? Then where did the wild wheat plants come from?'

She said, "Yes, Lord, and yet the house dogs usually eat the crumbs that fall from their master's table."

And because he could not pay it, his master ordered him to be sold, yea, even his wife and children and all he had, and payment to be made.

And his master's heart was moved with pity, and he let the slave go free with his debt cancelled.

"When his fellow-slaves saw what had happened, they were greatly troubled, and went and reported all that happened to their master.

Then his master called to him, and said, 'I cancelled all that huge debt of yours, because you pleaded with me to do so.

And the master was enraged and turned him over to the official torturers, until he should pay the whole debt.

But be sure of this, that if the master of the house had known in exactly what part of the night the thief would come, he would have been on guard and would not have let his house be broken into.

"Who then is the faithful and thoughtful slave, whom his master put in charge of his household, to deal out to the members of it their supplies at the proper time?

Blessed is that slave if, when his master comes back, he finds him so doing.

But if the slave is bad and says to himself, 'My master is going to be gone a long time,'

the master of that slave will come on the very day he is not expecting him,

At last the rest of the bridesmaids came, and kept begging, 'Master, master, open the door for us!'

But the man who had received the one thousand went off and dug a hole in the ground and buried his master's money.

After a long time the master of those slaves came back and settled accounts with them.

His master said to him 'Well done, my good and faithful slave, you have been faithful in the use of a small amount; I will put you in charge of a larger one. Come, share your master's joy!'

Then the man who had received the two thousand came up and said, 'Master, you turned over to me two thousand dollars; here are two thousand more I made.'

His master said to him, 'Well done, my good and faithful slave, you have been faithful in the use of a small amount; I will put you in charge of a larger one. Come, share your master's joy!'

Then the man who had received the one thousand came up and said, 'Master, I knew you were a hard man, who reaped where you had not sown, who gathered where you had not threshed.

His master answered him, 'You wicked, lazy slave, you knew that I reaped where I had not sown and gathered where I had not threshed.