No slave can belong to two masters, for he will either hate one and love the other, or stand by one and make light of the other. You cannot serve God and money.

For I am myself under the orders of others and I have soldiers under me, and I tell one to go, and he goes, and another to come, and he comes, and my slave to do something, and he does it."

A pupil is not better than his teacher, nor a slave better than his master.

A pupil should be satisfied to come to be like his teacher, or a slave, to come to be like his master. If men have called the head of the house Beelzebub, how much worse names will they give to the members of his household!

So the slave threw himself down before him and implored him, 'Give me time, and I will pay you all of it.'

And his master's heart was touched, and he let the slave go and canceled the debt.

But when the slave went out he met a fellow-slave of his who owed him twenty dollars, and he caught him by the throat and began to choke him, saying, 'Pay me what you owe!'

So his fellow-slave threw himself down before him, and begged him, 'Give me time, and I will pay you.'

Then his master called him in and said to him, 'You wicked slave! I canceled all that debt of yours when you entreated me.

Ought you not to have taken pity on your fellow-slave, as I did on you?'

and whoever wants to hold the first place among you must be your slave,

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

"Who then will be the faithful, thoughtful slave whom his master put in charge of his household, to give the members of it their supplies at the proper time?

Blessed is that slave if his master when he returns finds him doing it.

But if he is a bad slave and says to himself, 'My master is going to stay a long time,'

that slave's master will come back some day when he does not expect him, and at some time of which he does not know

His master said to him, 'Well done, my excellent, faithful slave! you have been faithful about a small amount; I will put a large one into your hands. Come, share your master's enjoyment!'

His master said to him, 'Well done, my excellent, faithful slave! you have been faithful about a small amount; I will put a large one into your hands. Come! share your master's enjoyment.'

His master answered, 'You wicked, idle slave! You knew that I reaped where I had not sown and gathered where I had not threshed?

And put the good-for-nothing slave out into the darkness outside, to weep and grind his teeth there.'

One of the men with Jesus put out his hand and drew his sword, and striking at the high priest's slave, cut his ear off.