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40 aTherefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”  
41 Then Peter said to Him, “Lord, do You speak this parable only to us, or to all people?”
42 And the Lord said, a“Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his master will make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of food1 in due season?  
43 Blessed is that servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.
44 aTruly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all that he has.  
45 aBut if that servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat the male and female servants, and to eat and drink and be drunk,  
46 the master of that servant will come on a aday when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.  
47 And athat servant who bknew his master’s will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.  
48 aBut he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.  

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49 a“I came to send fire on the earth, and how I wish it were already kindled!  
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Luke 12:42

Who then (tiv ara). Jesus introduces this parable of the wise steward (Luke 12:42-48) by a rhetorical question that answers itself. Peter is this wise steward, each of the Twelve is, anyone is who acts thus.

The faithful and wise steward (o pistov oikonomov o fronimov). The faithful steward, the wise one. A steward is house manager (oikos, nemw, to manage). Each man is a steward in his own responsibilities.

Household (qerapeiav). Literally, service from qerapeuw. medical service as in Luke 9:11, by metonymy household (a body of those domestics who serve).

Their portion of food (to sitometrion). Late word from sitometrew (Genesis 47:12) for the Attic ton siton metrew, to measure the food, the rations. Here only in the N.T. or anywhere else till Deissmann (Bible Studies, p. 158) found it in an Egyptian papyrus and then an inscription in Lycia (Light from the Ancient East, p. 104).




Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing Luke 12:42:

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Luke 12:41
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Romans 16:23
1 Corinthians 4:1
Galatians 4:2
Hebrews 3:5

 

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