Matthew 25:2-15

2Five of these young women were silly. The other five young women were wise.

3The silly women took their lamps with them, but they did not take any extra oil with them.

4The five wise women took jars of oil with their lamps.

5The man who was marrying a wife did not come for a long time. So all the young women became tired, and they went to sleep.

6In the middle of the night, someone shouted out, “The man is coming! Come out to meet him!”

7The ten young women woke up. Then they prepared their lamps to make them work well.

8The five silly young women said to the other five young women, “Give us some of your oil, because our lamps are not giving much light.”

9The wise women replied, “If we did that, then there would not be enough oil for all of us. You must go instead to the people who sell oil. You must buy some oil for yourselves.”

10So these five women went to buy some oil. While they were away, the man arrived for the marriage party. The five wise women were ready. They went with him into the house for the party. Then the servants shut the door.

11Later, the five silly women also came to the house. They said, “Sir, Sir, please open the door for us.”

12But he replied, “I tell you, I do not know you.” ’

13Then Jesus said to the people, ‘So you must watch carefully. You do not know on what day or at what time I will return.’

14Jesus said, ‘The kingdom of heaven is also like a man who began a journey. Before the master went away, he told his servants to come to him. He said to them, “Take care of all my money and all my things for me.”

15The master gave one servant 5,000 gold coins. He gave another servant 2,000 gold coins, and to another servant he gave 1,000 gold coins. The master gave to each servant what he would be able to use well. Then he went away on his journey.