Discovery BoxMatthew 10:24 
Context10:24 “A disciple is not greater than his teacher, nor a slave 1 greater than his master.
Matthew 21:40
Context21:40 Now when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?”
Matthew 24:46
Context24:46 Blessed is that slave whom the master finds at work 2 when he comes.
Matthew 24:48
Context24:48 But if 3 that evil slave should say to himself, 4 ‘My master is staying away a long time,’
Matthew 24:50
Context24:50 then the master of that slave will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not foresee,
1 tn See the note on the word “slave” in 8:9.
2 tn That is, doing his job, doing what he is supposed to be doing.
3 tn In the Greek text this is a third class condition that for all practical purposes is a hypothetical condition (note the translation of the following verb “should say”).
4 tn Grk “should say in his heart.”
