Luke 12:46-48

Expanded Bible

⁴⁶ The master [^Lof that servant/slave] will come [^Lon a day] when that servant is not ready and [^Lat an hour when he] is not expecting him. Then the master will cut him in pieces and ·send him away to be [assign/appoint him a place] with the ·others who don’t obey [unfaithful; unbelievers; ^Ca metaphorical reference to Jesus, the ultimate Lord and Master, returning to judge his servants].

⁴⁷ “The ·servant [slave] who knows what his master wants but is not ·ready [prepared], or who does not do what the master wants, will ·be beaten with many blows [beaten severely]! ⁴⁸ But the servant who does not know what his master wants and does things that should be punished will be beaten ·with few blows [lightly; ^Ca metaphor for judgment]. From everyone who has been given much, much will be ·demanded [required]. And from the one trusted with much, much more will be expected.