Matthew 25:5
Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.
One Unity Resource Bible
In The King James Version
While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
In Context
4but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps.
6But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’
Cross References
Matthew 25:19“Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and reconciled accounts with them.
Matthew 26:43He came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
Luke 12:45But if that servant says in his heart, ‘My lord delays his coming,’ and begins to beat the menservants and the maidservants, 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 →