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Matthew 25:11,12

MATTHEW—NOTE ON Matthew 25:11 I do not know you. The OT speaks of God “knowing” his chosen people (Jeremiah 1:5; Hosea 13:5; Amos 3:2). The same theme continues in the NT, where it describes a saving relationship with God through Jesus Christ (Galatians 4:8; 2 Timothy 2:19).

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Matthew 25:11. _AFTERWARDS CAME ALSO THE OTHER VIRGINS, SAYING, LORD,_ _LORD_] Earnest _prayer_, when used in _time_, may do much good: but it appears, from this parable, that there may come a t...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    OPEN UNTO US - This is not to be understood as implying that any will come after the righteous shall be admitted into the kingdom, and claim admission then. It is a part of the parable to illustrate t...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 25 _ 1. The Parable of the Ten Virgins. (Matthew 25:1 .) 2. The Parable of the Servants and the Talents. (Matthew 25:14 .) 3. The Judgment of Nations. (Matthew 25:31 .)_ The second parable is...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    MATTHEW 24:42 TO MATTHEW 25:13. Abbreviating Mark 13:33, with its simile of the absent householder, into one verse (Matthew 24:42; _cf._

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    THE FATE OF THE UNPREPARED (Matthew 25:1-13)...

  • Barclay Daily Study Bible (NT)

    "What will happen in the Kingdom of Heaven is like the situation which arose when ten virgins took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were foolish and five were wise. The fo...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    CAME ALSO THE OTHER VIRGINS. "came the other virgins also". LORD, LORD. Figure of speech _Epizeuxis,_ App-6, for emph., denoting urgency....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _Lord, Lord, open to us_ Cp. ch. Matthew 7:22-23....

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    ΚΎΡΙΕ ΚΎΡΙΕ. Cp. ch. Matthew 7:22-23....

  • Cambridge Greek Testament for Schools and Colleges Commentary

    THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS In St Matthew only....

  • Catena Aurea Commentary

    Ver 1. "Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. 3. They that...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE PREPARED AND THE UNPREPARED VIRGINS MATTHEW 25:1-13:_ The primary subject this chapter has to do with is the final judgment. Matthew 24 ended with the need to be prepared for the sudden and unexp...

  • Charles Rose Commentaries

    ΎΣΤΕΡΟΝ (G5306) позже, ΈΡΧΟΝΤΑΙ _praes. ind. med. (dep.) от_ ΈΡΧΟΜΑΙ идти. Hist, _praes._ ΚΎΡΙΕ _voc. sing. от_ ΚΎΡΙΟΣ (G2962). Двойной _voc._ подчеркивает важность просьбы (BD, 261). ΆΝΟΙΞΟΝ _aor....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    4. ILLUSTRATION OF THE TEN WISE AND FOOLISH BRIDESMAIDS (25:1-13) 1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. 2 And fiv...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. AFTERWARD CAME ALSO THE OTHER VIRGINS, SAYING, LORD, LORD, OPEN TO US. In this reiteration of the name was an exclamation rath...

  • Concordant Commentary on the New Testament by A. E. Knoch

    1 The parable of the ten virgins applies only to the kingdom at the time specified. When the Lord comes in glory to enter into covenant relationship with Israel at the commencement of the day of Jehov...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE TEN VIEGINS. THE TALENTS. THE SHEEP AND THE GOATS The whole of this a, which is entirely concerned with the Second Advent, and contains some of the most striking of all Christ's sayings, is pecul...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS. Professing Christians, who alone are addressed here, are warned of the absolute need of sufficient oil, i.e. of sufficient depth and reality in the spiritual life, if they...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL _HILDA BRIGHT_ CHAPTER 25 THE STORY ABOUT THE TEN YOUNG WOMEN 25:1-13 V1 ‘At that time, it will be like this where God rules: Ten young women took their la...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER 18 The Prophecy on the Mount - Matthew 24:1 & Matthew 25:1 WE have seen that though the Saviour's public ministry is now closed, He still has a private ministry to discharge-a ministry of cou...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    κύριε, κύριε, etc., master, master, open to us; a last, urgent, desperate appeal, knocking having preceded (Luke 13:25) without result. The fear that they are not going to be admitted has seized their...

  • Expositor's Greek Testament (Nicoll)

    _Parable of the Ten Virgins_, in Mt. only....

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    BE READY FOR THE BRIDEGROOM Matthew 25:1-13 Three remarkable parables occupy this chapter and follow a marked sequence of thought. First, we are called upon to look to ourselves, and be sure that we...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    "Then." This gives us the time in which the Kingdom of Heaven will be likened unto ten virgins. That Kingdom passes through many phases, but just before the coming of the King this will be its charact...

  • Godbey's Commentary on the New Testament

    CHAPTER 21 COMING OF THE LORD Matthew 25:1-13. _“Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be likened unto ten virgins, who, having taken their lamps, went out to meet the Bridegroom.”_ Throughout the Bi...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    "Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. (2) And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. (3) They that were...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    We now enter on the Lord's final presentation of Himself to Jerusalem, traced, however, from Jericho; that is, from the city which had once been the stronghold of the power of the Canaanite. The Lord...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE CLOSED DOOR_ ‘And the door was shut.’ Matthew 25:10 Very solemn tone in these words, even standing alone; this feeling increases when you see in what connection they occur. They are not words...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Professors, during the Lord's absence, are here presented as virgins, who went out to meet the Bridegroom, and light Him to the house. In this passage He is not the Bridegroom of the church. No others...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AFTERWARDS CAME ALSO THE OTHER VIRGINS,.... The "other five virgins", as the Persic version reads. The "other"; that were only virgins in name, not in reality; they were different from the wise, they...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. Ver. 11. _Afterward came also the other virgins_] The greater number by odds that stand trifling and baffling with Christ, and t...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _While they went to buy_ While they made some unsuccessful efforts to obtain oil, and light their lamps; _the bridegroom came, and they that were ready_ They who had put on the wedding- garment, who h...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Too late:...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    AFTERWARD CAME ALSO THE OTHER VIRGINS, SAYING, LORD, LORD, OPEN TO US....

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    "Then," that is, at the time when things must be brought to their proper conclusion, "shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins." These take lamps to go forth to meet the bridegroom. The...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-13 The circumstances of the parable of the ten virgins were taken from the marriage customs among the Jews, and explain the great day of Christ's coming. See the nature of Christianity. As Christia...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 25:13"....

  • NT Verse References in the Ante-Nicene Fathers

    Methodius Discourse XI. Arete Thekla. 8. The virgins standing without the chamber,[5]...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Matthew 25:11 Afterward G1161 G5305 other G3062 virgins G3933 came G2064 (G5736) also G2532 saying G3004 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘Afterwards came also the other virgins, saying, “Lord, Lord, open to us.” ' Having either purchased oil of a kind, or having been unable to obtain any (it really made no difference), the remaining ma...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS Another emphasis on the fact that all must be ready for His second coming is found in this parable. It is the parable of ten maidens who were to go out to meet the bride...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    THE PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS. Closely joined to the preceding one. Its leading idea is the readiness of the Church for the coming of the Lord. See the closing exhortation (Matthew 25:13). The last p...

  • Philip Schaff's Popular Commentary on the NT (4 vols)

    Matthew 25:11. AFTERWARD COME ALSO THE OTHER VIRGINS. The story is carried to its conclusion; the foolish virgins did not lack persistent effort. We may understand the verse as a mere carrying out of...

  • Robertson's Word Pictures of the New Testament

    AFTERWARD (υστερον). And find the door shut in their faces.LORD, LORD, OPEN TO US (Κυριε, Κυριε, ανοιξον ημιν). They appeal to the bridegroom who is now master whether he is at the bride's house...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Matthew 25:10 I. Who are ready? All are not ready. This parable shows that all who make a profession of being Christ's are not ready. The foolish virgins appeared to be ready. They had their robe, the...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Matthew 25:1 Here is one of the larger and grander pictures in this gallery of various glory. It is sublime in its ample outline, and exquisitely tender in its details. It is charged with many precio...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Matthew 25:1. _Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, And five were foolish._ What a...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Matthew 25:1. _Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom._ And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. They th...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Parables of the wise and foolish virgins. Testing of the servants in the Lord's absence. Future testing of the Gentile nations at the Lord's return. CHARACTERS: God, Jesus, disciples. CONCL...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Matthew 25:1. _Ten virgins took their lamps to meet the bridegroom._ Homer names the like custom among the Greeks, of the bridegroom being preseded by virgins bearing lighted torches. The virgins repr...

  • The Bible Study New Testament

    SIR, SIR! LET US IN! As Augustine says: "They came looking for mercy when it was time for judgment." Compare Luke 13:25....

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins._ THE TEN VIRGINS I. We have here two characters contrasted. “Five were wise and five were foolish.” That we may define the difference b...

  • The Great Commentary of Cornelius à Lapide

    1-40 CHAPTER 25 _Then_... _which went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride_ (Vulg.). _And the bride_ is not found in the Greek, nor in S. Chrysostom. It is the reading of the Latin and the Syria...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _CRITICAL NOTES_ Matthew 25:1. THEN SHALL THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.—The three parables of this chapter appear here as in closest sequence to the great discourse of chap. 24, and are as its natural conclu...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION MATTHEW 25:1 _Parable of the ten virgins. _(Peculiar to St. Matthew.) This parable, as a continuation of the teaching of the last chapter, sets forth the necessity of having and retaining...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Shall we turn now to Matthew's gospel chapter twenty-five? In the twenty-fourth chapter of Matthew's gospel the disciples came to Jesus and asked Him what would be the signs that would precede the des...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Hebrews 12:16; Hebrews 12:17; Matthew 7:21...

  • Vincent's Word Studies in the New Testament (4 Volume Set)

    Lord, Lord. Applying directly to the bridegroom, whose will was supreme, not that he had arrived at the bride's residence....

  • William Burkitt's Expository Notes

    Observe here, The virgins' petition, and the Bridegroom's reply: the petition, LORD, LORD, OPEN TO US. Learn hence, That how negligent soever men are of heaven and salvation here, there are none but...

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