If a man wishes to be my servant, let him follow me; and where I am, there too shall my servant be. If a man wishes to be my servant, the Father will honour him.

But if the man, being a bad servant, should say in his heart, 'My master is a long time in coming,'

Here the servant of a certain Captain, a man dear to his master, was ill and at the point of death;

"'By your own words,' he replied, 'I will judge you, you bad servant. You knew me to be a severe man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow: