Matthew 25:5
Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
In Context
4But the wise took olive oil in their vessels with their lamps.
6But at midnight a shout occurred, Behold, the bridegroom comes! Go ye forth for his gathering.
Cross References
Song of Solomon 3:1By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loves. I sought him, but I did not find him.
Song of Solomon 5:3I have put off my garment, how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet, how shall I defile them?
Habakkuk 2:3For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hastens toward the end, and shall not lay. Though it tarry, wait for it, because it will surely come. It will not delay.
Matthew 25:19Now after a long time the lord of those bondmen comes, and takes up accounting with them.
Matthew 26:43And having come again, he finds them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
Luke 12:45But if that bondman should say in his heart, My lord is late to come, and should begin to beat the servant boys and the servant girls, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken,
Matthew Henry on Matthew 25:2-14
The Parable of the Ten Virgins. 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 were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: 4 But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 5 While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept. 6 And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. 7 Then all those… Read the whole commentary →