I speak after the manner of a man on account of the weakness of your carnality. For as ye presented your members as servants unto impurity and lawlessness pursuant to lawlessness, so now present your members servants unto righteousness pursuant to sanctification.

And he said to them, A hostile man did this. And the servants say to him, Then do you wish that we, having gone, may gather them?

Therefore the kingdom of the heavens is like unto a kingly man, who wished to make a reckoning with his servants.

For as a man going away, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods,

As a man, going away, leaving his own house, and giving authority to his servants, and to each one his work, and commanded the porter that he should watch.