Matthew 25
Matthew 25English Standard Version (ESV)
The Parable of the Ten Virgins
Who did the ten virgins go to meet? (verse 1)
What did all ten of the virgins take with them? (Verse 1)
What showed the wisdom of five of the virgins? (Verse 2-4)
What showed the foolishness of the five foolish virgins? (verse 2-4)
What happened as the bridegroom was delayed? (verse 5)
What happened at midnight? (verse 6-9)
What did the wise virgins answer to the foolish virgins when the foolish virgins told the wise virgins to give their oil? (verse 8-9)
What was the status of those who went in with the bridegroom? (verse 10)
Was the door shut? (verse 10)
What did all ten of the virgins take with them? (Verse 1)
What showed the wisdom of five of the virgins? (Verse 2-4)
What showed the foolishness of the five foolish virgins? (verse 2-4)
What happened as the bridegroom was delayed? (verse 5)
What happened at midnight? (verse 6-9)
What did the wise virgins answer to the foolish virgins when the foolish virgins told the wise virgins to give their oil? (verse 8-9)
What was the status of those who went in with the bridegroom? (verse 10)
Was the door shut? (verse 10)
The Parable of the Talents
What did the man going on a journey entrust to his servants? (verse 14)
How did the man going on a journey give to each one? (verse 15)
When does it say the one with five talents traded with them? (verse 16)
Did the one who received one talent go somewhere? (Verse 18)
When did the master of those servants come and settle accounts with them? (verse 19)
Who came forward first to meet the master? (Verse 20)
What was the first servant's message? (Verse 20)
What was similar about the first two servants? (Verse 14-30)
What are all the virtues mentioned in this parable of the Talents? (Verse 14-30)
What did the last servant say when he approached his master? (verse 24-25)
Where are the worthless servants cast? (verse 30)
How did the man going on a journey give to each one? (verse 15)
When does it say the one with five talents traded with them? (verse 16)
Did the one who received one talent go somewhere? (Verse 18)
When did the master of those servants come and settle accounts with them? (verse 19)
Who came forward first to meet the master? (Verse 20)
What was the first servant's message? (Verse 20)
What was similar about the first two servants? (Verse 14-30)
What are all the virtues mentioned in this parable of the Talents? (Verse 14-30)
What did the last servant say when he approached his master? (verse 24-25)
Where are the worthless servants cast? (verse 30)
The Final Judgment
Who will come in His glory? (verse 31)
Who will sit on His glorious throne? (verse 31)
Who will be gathered before Him? (verse 32)
Who will separate people one from another? (verse 32)
What is this separating compared to? (verse 32)
Who is placed on His right? (verse 33)
But who is put on the left? (verse 33)
What are the mentioned needs and conditions? (verse 35-46)
How are each of the mentioned needs and conditions met? (verse 35-46)
Who will sit on His glorious throne? (verse 31)
Who will be gathered before Him? (verse 32)
Who will separate people one from another? (verse 32)
What is this separating compared to? (verse 32)
Who is placed on His right? (verse 33)
But who is put on the left? (verse 33)
What are the mentioned needs and conditions? (verse 35-46)
How are each of the mentioned needs and conditions met? (verse 35-46)
What are the similarities between all these parables? (verse 1-46)
Where are the points of contrast? (verse 1-46)
Example: Wise and Foolish, Abundance, Take Away, Joy and Weeping
Interpretation - Considering the Parable of the Ten Virgins
What are the ten virgins representative of? People? Churches? Years?
What is the symbolic meaning of taking your lamp with flasks of oil?
Interpretation - Considering the Parable of the Talents
Who has gone on a journey?
Who has entrusted a portion of his property?
What is this property?
(It may be in the answer to "How does this matter in Heaven?")
HEBREWS 13:5-6. "Does this bury my time, money, talents, in the earth?"
Interpretation - The Final Judgment
How can one metaphorically or spiritually be a sheep?
How does one metaphorically or spiritually be a goat?
The difference seems to be in weather or not they feed, give drink, welcome strangers, clothe naked, and visit when they are sick or in prison.
Correlation:
Matthew 25:5 - (Matthew 24:48 and Luke 12:45)
Matthew 25:24 - (Matthew 13:1-23, Mark 4:1-20, and Luke 8:1-15)
Matthew 25:25 - (Isaiah 35:4, John 14:27, Joshua 1:9, Matthew 6:34, Isaiah 43:1, Psalm 23:4, Psalm 34:4, Psalm 94:19, Romans 8:38-39, Psalm 27:1, 1 Peter 5:6-7, Psalm 118:6, 2 Timothy 1:7, Psalm 115:11, Psalm 103:17, Psalm 112:1, Deuteronomy 31:6, 1 Chronicles 28:20, Psalm 56:3-4, Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 41:13, Isaiah 54:4, Matthew 10:28, Romans 8:15, 1 Corinthians 16:13, Hebrews 13:5-6, 1 Peter 3:13-14, and 1 John 4:18) 1 John 4:18. Did I mention? 1 John 4:18.
Matthew 25:34 - This is part of a bigger correlation picture of right hands... (Genesis 48:13, Genesis 48:14, Exodus 15:6, Leviticus 8:23, Leviticus 14:17,
Judges 16:29 *so good* Job 40:14, Psalm 16:11, Psalm 17:7, 18:35, 20:6,21:8, 44:3, 45:4, 48:10, 60:5, 63:8, 73:23, 80:17, 108:6... The picture points to Jesus. I get more than a little excited about the great things that our Father has done through His Right Hand!
Concerning the Blessed (Psalm 1:1-3, Psalm 23:1-4 *super correlating*, and maybe 1 John 5:18, Psalm 138:7, 2 Corinthians 9:8, and Philippians 4:7)
Matthew 25:34 - Revelation 21:2
Matthew 25:35-45 - Isaiah 3, Isaiah 58, Hebrews 5
Matthew 25:35 - Mark 9:41 and Luke 9:48
There is a correlation between every parable here and investing in the things that last.
What Lasts? (1 Corinthians 13, 1 John 4, Luke 12:33 and James 2)
Application:
If what I have been given is the anointing of the Holy Spirit and the Gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God through who is the only path to reach Our Father, then the gift that has been bestowed must multiply and gain interest in order to be pleasing.
Disciples are the kind of people who make more disciples and thereby what is interested gains interest and multiplies.
Father in Heaven, Thank you for the opportunity to feed you, give you drink, welcome you, clothe you, and visit you when you are sick or in prison.
Lead us to do these in wisdom and in ways that please you
Disciples are the kind of people who make more disciples and thereby what is interested gains interest and multiplies.
Father in Heaven, Thank you for the opportunity to feed you, give you drink, welcome you, clothe you, and visit you when you are sick or in prison.
Lead us to do these in wisdom and in ways that please you
Matthew 25English Standard Version (ESV)
The Parable of the Ten Virgins
25 “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps[a]and went to meet the bridegroom.[b] 2 Five of them were foolish, and five were wise. 3 For when the foolish took their lamps, they took no oil with them, 4 but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps. 5 As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept. 6 But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’ 7 Then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. 8 And the foolish said to the wise, ‘Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.’ 9 But the wise answered, saying, ‘Since there will not be enough for us and for you, go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves.’ 10 And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut. 11 Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ‘Lord, lord, open to us.’ 12 But he answered, ‘Truly, I say to you, I do not know you.’ 13 Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
The Parable of the Talents
14 “For it will be like a man going on a journey, who called his servants[c] and entrusted to them his property. 15 To one he gave five talents,[d] to another two, to another one, to each according to his ability. Then he went away. 16 He who had received the five talents went at once and traded with them, and he made five talents more. 17 So also he who had the two talents made two talents more. 18 But he who had received the one talent went and dug in the ground and hid his master's money. 19 Now after a long time the master of those servants came and settled accounts with them. 20 And he who had received the five talents came forward, bringing five talents more, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me five talents; here, I have made five talents more.’ 21 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant.[e] You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 22 And he also who had the two talents came forward, saying, ‘Master, you delivered to me two talents; here, I have made two talents more.’ 23 His master said to him, ‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’ 24 He also who had received the one talent came forward, saying, ‘Master, I knew you to be a hard man, reaping where you did not sow, and gathering where you scattered no seed, 25 so I was afraid, and I went and hid your talent in the ground. Here, you have what is yours.’ 26 But his master answered him, ‘You wicked and slothful servant! You knew that I reap where I have not sown and gather where I scattered no seed? 27 Then you ought to have invested my money with the bankers, and at my coming I should have received what was my own with interest. 28 So take the talent from him and give it to him who has the ten talents. 29 For to everyone who has will more be given, and he will have an abundance. But from the one who has not, even what he has will be taken away.30 And cast the worthless servant into the outer darkness. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
The Final Judgment
31 “When the Son of Man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. 32 Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. 33 And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left. 34 Then the King will say to those on his right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. 35 For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, 36 I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’ 37 Then the righteous will answer him, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you drink? 38 And when did we see you a stranger and welcome you, or naked and clothe you? 39 And when did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ 40 And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers,[f] you did it to me.’
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you gave me no drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’ 44 Then they also will answer, saying, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and did not minister to you?’ 45 Then he will answer them, saying, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to me.’ 46 And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
Footnotes:
- Matthew 25:1 Or torches
- Matthew 25:1 Some manuscripts add and the bride
- Matthew 25:14 Or bondservants; also verse 19
- Matthew 25:15 A talent was a monetary unit worth about twenty years' wages for a laborer
- Matthew 25:21 Or bondservant; also verses 23, 26, 30
- Matthew 25:40 Or brothers and sisters
- Matthew 25:1 Or torches
- Matthew 25:1 Some manuscripts add and the bride
- Matthew 25:14 Or bondservants; also verse 19
- Matthew 25:15 A talent was a monetary unit worth about twenty years' wages for a laborer
- Matthew 25:21 Or bondservant; also verses 23, 26, 30
- Matthew 25:40 Or brothers and sisters
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