Luke 12:43 (YLT)

Passage

Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so;

Nearby Context

Luke 12:41 And Peter said to him, `Sir, unto us this simile dost thou speak, or also unto all?'

Luke 12:42 And the Lord said, `Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure?

Luke 12:43 Happy that servant, whom his lord, having come, shall find doing so;

Luke 12:44 truly I say to you, that over all his goods he will set him.

Luke 12:45 `And if that servant may say in his heart, My lord doth delay to come, and may begin to beat the men-servants and the maid-servants, to eat also, and to drink, and to be drunken;

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "happy", "servant", "lord", "having", "come", "shall", "find", and "doing". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "happy" and "servant", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 42's "And the Lord said Who then is..." into verse 44's "truly I say to you that over...", so "happy" and "servant" belong inside that flow. In Luke context, the local focus is Christ, faith, and discipleship.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "happy" and "servant" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.