Therefore stay awake -- for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the cock crows,[3] or in the morning --
And he saw that they were making headway painfully, for the wind was against them. And about the fourth watch of the night[7] he came to them, walking on the sea. He meant to pass by them,
But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what part of the night the thief was coming, he would have stayed awake and would not have let his house be broken into.