Matthew 24 · a question people ask

"Who then is the faithful and wise servant…?" (24:45). Does Jesus say who it is?

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He doesn't name anyone. Here are his words: "Who then is the faithful and wise servant, whom his lord has set over his household, to give them their food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his lord finds doing so when he comes. Most certainly I tell you that he will set him over all that he has." (24:45-47) (tap wise). Then he speaks of "that evil servant" who should "say in his heart, ‘My lord is delaying his coming,’" (24:48) and "begins to beat his fellow servants, and eat and drink with the drunkards" (24:49), and says that "the lord of that servant will come in a day when he doesn’t expect it and in an hour when he doesn’t know it" (24:50), and what he will do (24:51). The chapter doesn't say whom the servant, the evil servant or the lord stand for, and these notes don't either. Favor's Luke 12 sets Luke's telling beside Matthew's in Taught already in Matthew and Mark.

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Matthew 24: Watch therefore

The word behind coming in the disciples' question, parousia, is in no other Gospel: Matthew has it four times, all in this chapter (24:3, 24:27, 24:37, 24:39). And Jesus's answer doesn't stop where the chapter does: in the WEB his words run on to the end of 25:46.

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