Matthew 25:6 BSB — MannaFest

Matthew 25:6

At midnight the cry rang out: ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him!’

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

But at midnight there is a cry, Behold, the bridegroom! Come ye forth to meet him.

KJV

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

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Catena Aurea by Aquinas (420)

The Jews have a tradition that Christ will come at midnight, in like manner as in that visitation of Egypt, when the Paschal feast is celebrated, and the destroyer comes, and the Lord passes over our dwellings, and the door posts of each man's countenance are hallowed by the blood of the Lamb.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

At midnight there was a cry - The Jewish weddings were generally celebrated in the night; yet they usually began at the rising of the evening star; but in this case there was a more than ordinary delay. Behold, the bridegroom cometh - What an awful thing to be summoned to appear before the Judge of quick and dead!

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

And at midnight--that is, the time when the Bridegroom will be least expected; for "the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night" (1Th 5:2). there was a cry made, Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him--that is, Be ready to welcome Him.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
Μέσης	Mesēs	At middle	G3319 →
δὲ	de	then	G1161 →
νυκτὸς	nuktos	of [the] night	G3571 →
κραυγὴ	kraugē	a cry	G2906 →
γέγονεν·	gegonen	there was:	G1096 →
ἰδοὺ	idou	Behold	G2400 →
ὁ	ho	the	G3588 →
νυμφίος	numphios	bridegroom	G3566 →
ἐξέρχεσθε	exerchesthe	do go forth	G1831 →
εἰς	eis	to	G1519 →
ἀπάντησιν	apantēsin	meet	G529 →
αὐτοῦ.	autou	him!	G846 →

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The walk

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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
Matthew 25:1
“At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
leads to
- Luke 12:35–36
  Be dressed for service and keep your lamps burning.
- Matthew 24:42–51
  Therefore keep watch, because you do not know the day on which your Lord will come.
- Revelation 19:7
  Let us rejoice and be glad and give Him the glory. For the marriage of the Lamb has come, and His bride has made herself ready.
- Philippians 2:15–16
  so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and perverse generation, in which you shine as lights in the world
Through
2 Peter 3:10
But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid…
leads to
- Revelation 21:1
  Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
- Matthew 24:35
  Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
Through
Matthew 24:31
And He will send out His angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.
leads to
- 1 Thessalonians 4:16
  For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to…
- Mark 13:27
  And He will send out the angels to gather His elect from the four winds, from the ends of the earth to the ends of heaven.