Matthew 25:2
Five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.
In Context
3Those who were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:
Cross References
Matthew 7:24Therefore, whoever hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man, who built his house on the rock:
Matthew 13:38the field is the world; the good seed are the sons of the kingdom; the tares are the sons of the Wicked One;
Matthew 22:10And those servants went out into the roads, and brought together all, as many as they found, both bad and good: and the banquet-room was filled with guests.
1 Corinthians 10:1Now, brethren, I do not wish you to be ignorant, that all our fathers were under the cloud, and that all passed through the sea,
Jude 1:5But I wish to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people from the land of Egypt, then destroyed those who believed not.
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 →