Matthew 25:9-19

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 ¹those who were ready went in with him to ²the marriage feast, and ³the door was shut.

11 Afterward the other virgins came also, saying, ⁴'Lord, lord, open to us.'

12 ⁵But he answered, 'Truly, I say to you, ⁶I do not know you.'

13 ⁷Watch therefore, for you ⁸know neither the day nor the hour.

The Parable of the Talents

14 ⁹"For ¹⁰it will be like a man ¹¹going on a journey, who called his servants^[a] and entrusted to them his property.

15 To one he gave five ¹²talents,^[b] to another two, to another one, ¹³to each according to his ability. Then he ¹⁴went 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 ¹⁵dug in the ground and hid his master's money.

19 Now ¹⁶after a long time the master of those servants came and ¹⁷settled accounts with them.

Cross References

• 1. Matthew 24:44
• 2. Matthew 22:2
• 3. For ver. 10-12, [Luke 13:25-27]
• 4. [Matthew 7:22, 23]
• 5. [See ver. 11 above]
• 6. Matthew 10:33; [2 Timothy 2:19]
• 7. Matthew 24:42
• 8. [Matthew 24:50]
• 9. For ver. 14-30, [Luke 19:12-27]
• 10. [Mark 13:34]
• 11. Matthew 21:33
• 12. Matthew 18:24
• 13. [Romans 12:6; 1 Corinthians 12:11; Ephesians 4:7; 1 Peter 4:10]
• 14. [See ver. 14 above]
• 15. [Matthew 13:44]
• 16. [ver. 5]
• 17. Matthew 18:23; Romans 14:12; [Luke 16:2]

Footnotes

• [a]. Greek bondservants; also verse 19
• [b]. A talent was a monetary unit worth about twenty years' wages for a laborer