Luke 12:38-40  The Voice

³⁸ The later he comes home—whether it’s at midnight or even later, just before dawn—the more fortunate the alert servants will be.

³⁹ In contrast, imagine a complacent, apathetic household manager whose house gets robbed. If he had been aware that thieves were waiting in the bushes and what hour they were coming, [he would have watched and]^[a] he never would have left the house! ⁴⁰ I’m trying to tell you that these are times for alertness, times requiring a sense of urgency and intensity, because like the master in the first story or the thief in the second, the Son of Man shows up by surprise.