⁶ “At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here’s the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’

³⁶ like servants waiting for their master to return from a wedding banquet, so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

³⁹ But understand this: If the owner of the house had known at what hour the thief^(A) was coming, he would not have let his house be broken into.

¹² He said: “A man of noble birth went to a distant country to have himself appointed king and then to return.