Matthew 25:3 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 25:3

The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take along any extra oil.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

For the foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them:

KJV

They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:

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Commentary

3 voices

Origen of Alexandria

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (253)

Or, The oil is the word of teaching, with which the vessels of souls are filled; for what gives so great content as moral discourse, which is called the oil of light. The wise took with them of this oil, as much as would suffice, though the Word should tarry long, and be slack to come to their consummation. The foolish took lamps, alight indeed at the first, but not supplied with so much oil as should suffice even to the end, being careless respecting the provision of doctrine which comforts faith, and enlightens the lamp of good deeds.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the New Testament (1755)

The foolish took no oil with them - No more than kept them burning just for the present. None to supply their future want, to recruit their lamp's decay. A lamp and oil with it, is faith working by love.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

J.C. Ryle

1816–1900

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Matthew (1856)

The chapter we have now begun is a continuation of our Lord’s prophetic discourse on the Mount of Olives. The time to which it refers is plain and unmistakable: from first to last, there is a continual reference to the second advent of Christ and the end of the world. The whole chapter contains three great divisions. In the first, our Lord uses his own second coming as an argument for watchfulness and heart-religion: this he does by the parable of the ten virgins.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
αἱ	hai	Those [who]	G3588 →
γὰρ	gar	for	G1063 →
μωραὶ	mōrai	foolish	G3474 →
λαβοῦσαι	labousai	having taken	G2983 →
τὰς	tas	the	G3588 →
λαμπάδας	lampadas	lamps	G2985 →
αὐτῶν	autōn	of them	G846 →
οὐκ	ouk	not	G3756 →
ἔλαβον	elabon	did take	G2983 →
μεθ᾽	meth᾽	with	G3326 →
ἑαυτῶν	he'autōn	their own	G1438 →
ἔλαιον,	elaion	oil,	G1637 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
2 Timothy 3:5
having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
leads to
- Isaiah 29:13
  Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Titus 1:16
  They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Matthew 23:27–28
  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
- 1 Timothy 5:8
  If anyone does not provide for his own, and especially his own household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
- Romans 2:20–24
  an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth—
Through
Revelation 3:1
“To the angel of the church in Sardis write: These are the words of the One who holds the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars. I know your deeds; you have a…
leads to
- 1 Timothy 5:6
  But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.
- James 2:26
  As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.
- Revelation 1:4
  John, To the seven churches in the province of Asia: Grace and peace to you from Him who is and was and is to come, and from the seven Spirits before His throne,