Matthew 25:6
But at midnight there is a cry, Behold, the bridegroom! Come ye forth to meet him.
American Standard Version
In The King James Version
And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.
In Context
5Now while the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
7Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.
Cross References
Psalms 50:3Our God cometh, and doth not keep silence: A fire devoureth before him, And it is very tempestuous round about him.
Psalms 98:9Before Jehovah; for he cometh to judge the earth: He will judge the world with righteousness, And the peoples with equity. Psalm 99
Amos 4:12Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; [and] because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
Matthew 24:31And he shall send forth his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
Matthew 25:1Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
Mark 13:33Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.
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 →