Matthew 25:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. ”

• Matthew 25:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  At midnight - Later than was the usual custom, and hence, they had fallen asleep. A cry made - Of those who were coming with the bridegroom.

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• Matthew 25:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Matthew 24:42 to Matthew 25:13 . Abbreviating Mark 13:33-37 , with its simile of the absent householder, into one verse ( Matthew 24:42 ; cf. Luke 21:36 ), Mt. inserts ( a) the short simile...

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• Matthew 25:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  there was. cry made . there arose. cry. Behold. Figure of speech Asterismos.

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• Matthew 25:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  6. At midnight a cry arose. With respect to the cry I view it as taken metaphorically for his sudden arrival; for we know, that when any thing new and unexpected happens, men are wont to...

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• Matthew 25:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. At midnight there was a cry - The Jewish weddings were generally celebrated in the night; yet they usually...

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• Matthew 25:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  And at midnight there was a cry— Perhaps the tradition which St. Jerome mentions, wherein it was asserted that Christ would come to judgment at midnight, might be borrowed from this passage; though...

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• Matthew 25:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. And at midnight - that is, the time when the Bridegroom will be least expected; because "the day of...

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• Matthew 25:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Parable of the Ten Virgins. Professing Christians, who alone are addressed here, are warned of the absolute need of sufficient oil, i.e. of sufficient depth and reality in the spiritual life, if th...

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• Matthew 25:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  At midnight. — The hour was obviously later than the virgins had expected, and in this we may see a half-veiled suggestion of a like lateness in the coining of the true Bridegroom. The “cry” would...

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• Matthew 25:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  Chapter 18 The Prophecy on the Mount - Matthew 24:1-51 & Matthew 25:1-46 WE have seen that though the Saviour's public ministry is now closed, He still has a private ministry to discharge...

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• Matthew 25:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Be Ready for the Bridegroom Matthew 25:1-13 Three remarkable parables occupy this chapter and follow a marked sequence of thought. First, we are called upon to look to ourselves, and be sure th...

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• Matthew 25:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  "Then." This gives us the time in which the Kingdom of Heaven will be likened unto ten virgins. That Kingdom passes through many phases, but just before the coming of the King this will be its charac...

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• Matthew 25:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  "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...

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• Matthew 25:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And at midnight there was a cry made ;.... Which is no other than the following notice of the bridegroom's coming, expressed in these words: behold the bridegroom cometh, go ye out to meet him : w...

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• Matthew 25:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him. Ver. 6. There was a cry made ] By the trumpet of the archangel, a and the voice of God, say some inte...

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• Matthew 25:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  And at midnight In an hour quite unthought of, and the most alarming. Perhaps the tradition mentioned by Jerome, which asserted that Christ would come to judgment at midnight, might be borrowed fro...

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• Matthew 25:6 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  "Then," that is, at the time when things must be brought to their proper conclusion, "shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins." These take lamps to go forth to meet the bridegroom. Th...

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• Matthew 25:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Parable of the Ten Virgins.       1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went fo...

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• Matthew 25:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  See Poole on " Matthew 25:13 " .

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• Matthew 25:6 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  The Parable of the Ten Virgins Another emphasis on the fact that all must be ready for His second coming is found in this parable. It is the parable of ten maidens who were to go out to meet the b...

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• Matthew 25:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES Matthew 25:1 . Then shall the kingdom of heaven .—The three parables of this chapter appear here as in closest sequence to the great discourse of chap. 24, and are as its natural...

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• Matthew 25:6 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  Matthew 25:1-13 Here is one of the larger and grander pictures in this gallery of various glory. It is sublime in its ample outline, and exquisitely tender in its details. It is charged with many...

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• Matthew 25:6 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  Matthew 25:1-4 . Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom. And five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Th...

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• Matthew 25:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Matthew 25:1 . Ten virgins took their lamps to meet the bridegroom. Homer names the like custom among the Greeks, of the bridegroom being preseded by virgins bearing lighted torches. The virgins r...

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• Matthew 25:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins. The ten virgins I. We have here two characters contrasted. “Five were wise and five were foolish.” That we may define the differenc...

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• Matthew 25:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Matthew 25:1-40 Parable of the ten virgins. (Peculiar to St. Matthew.) This parable, as a continuation of the teaching of the last chapter, sets forth the necessity of having a...

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• Matthew 25:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  And at midnight there was a cry made, Behold, the bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

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• Matthew 25:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Thessalonians 4:16 ; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-3 ; 2 Peter 3:10 ; 2 Thessalonians 1:7-10 ; Amos 4:12 ; Isaiah 25:9 ; John 5:28 ; John 5:29 ; Jude 1:14 ; Jude 1:15 ; Luke 12:20 ; Luke 12:38-40...

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• Matthew 25:6 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  At midnight — In an hour quite unthought of.

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