The Good News According to Mattityahu, Chapter 25
{25:1} "Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who
took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom. {25:2} Five of
them were foolish, and five were wise. {25:3} Those who were foolish,
when they took their lamps, took no oil with them, {25:4} but the wise
took oil in their vessels with their lamps. {25:5} Now while the
bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept. {25:6} But at
midnight there was a cry, 'Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out
to meet him!' {25:7} Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their
lamps. {25:8} The foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil,
for our lamps are going out.' {25:9} But the wise answered, saying,
'What if there isn't enough for us and you? You go rather to those who
sell, and buy for yourselves.' {25:10} While they went away to buy,
the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the
marriage feast, and the door was shut. {25:11} Afterward the other
virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us.' {25:12} But he
answered, 'Most assuredly I tell you, I don't know you.' {25:13} Watch
therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of
Man is coming.
{25:14} "For it is like a man, going into another country, who
called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them. {25:15} To
one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one; to each
according to his own ability, then he went on his journey. {25:16}
Immediately he who received the five talents went and traded with
them, and made another five talents. {25:17} In like manner he also
who got the two gained another two. {25:18} But he who received the
one went away and dug in the [1>]eretz[<1], and hid his lord's money.
{25:19} "Now after a long time the lord of those servants came, and
reconciled accounts with them. {25:20} He who received the five
talents came and brought another five talents, saying, 'Lord, you
delivered to me five talents. Behold, I have gained another five
talents besides them.'
{25:21} "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful
servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over
many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
{25:22} "He also who got the two talents came and said, 'Lord, you
delivered to me two talents. Behold, I have gained another two talents
besides them.'
{25:23} "His lord said to him, 'Well done, good and faithful
servant. You have been faithful over a few things, I will set you over
many things. Enter into the joy of your lord.'
{25:24} "He also who had received the one talent came and said,
'Lord, I knew you that you are a hard man, reaping where you did not
sow, and gathering where you did not scatter. {25:25} I was afraid,
and went away and hid your talent in the [2>]eretz[<2]. Behold, you
have what is yours.'
{25:26} "But his lord answered him, 'You wicked and slothful
servant. You knew that I reap where I didn't sow, and gather where I
didn't scatter. {25:27} You ought therefore to have deposited my money
with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received back my own
with interest. {25:28} Take away therefore the talent from him, and
give it to him who has the ten talents. {25:29} For to everyone who
has will be given, and he will have abundance, but from him who has
not, even that which he has will be taken away. {25:30} Throw out the
unprofitable servant into the outer darkness, where there will be
weeping and gnashing of teeth.'
{25:31} "But when the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the
holy angels with him, then he will sit on the throne of his glory.
{25:32} Before him all the nations will be gathered, and he will
separate them one from another, as a shepherd separates the sheep from
the goats. {25:33} He will set the sheep on his right hand, but the
goats on the left. {25:34} Then the King will tell those on his right
hand, 'Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for
you from the foundation of the world; {25:35} for I was hungry, and
you gave me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me drink; I was a
stranger, and you took me in; {25:36} naked, and you clothed me; I was
sick, and you visited me; I was in prison, and you came to me.'
{25:37} "Then the righteous will answer him, saying, 'Lord, when did
we see you hungry, and feed you; or thirsty, and give you a drink?
{25:38} When did we see you as a stranger, and take you in; or naked,
and clothe you? {25:39} When did we see you sick, or in prison, and
come to you?'
{25:40} "The King will answer them, 'Most assuredly I tell you,
inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you
did it to me.' {25:41} Then he will say also to those on the left
hand, 'Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is
prepared for the devil and his angels; {25:42} for I was hungry, and
you didn't give me food to eat; I was thirsty, and you gave me no
drink; {25:43} I was a stranger, and you didn't take me in; naked, and
you didn't clothe me; sick, and in prison, and you didn't visit me.'
{25:44} "Then they will also answer, saying, 'Lord, when did we see
you hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in
prison, and didn't help you?'
{25:45} "Then he will answer them, saying, 'Most assuredly I tell
you, inasmuch as you didn't do it to one of the least of these, you
didn't do it to me.' {25:46} These will go away into eternal
punishment, but the righteous into eternal life."
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Footnotes:
[1] {25:18} earth
[2] {25:25} earth
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