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10 And while they were going away to buy, the bridegroom came. And the prepared ones entered with him into the wedding-celebrations. And the door was shut. 11 And later, the other virgins also come, saying, ‘Sir, sir, open for us’. 12 But the one, having responded, said, ‘Truly I say to you, I do not know[a] you’.

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  1. Matthew 25:12 Thus they were also foolish because they thought of themselves as friends of the bridegroom, yet he did not even know them.

10 “But while they were on their way to buy the oil, the bridegroom arrived. The virgins who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet.(A) And the door was shut.

11 “Later the others also came. ‘Lord, Lord,’ they said, ‘open the door for us!’

12 “But he replied, ‘Truly I tell you, I don’t know you.’(B)

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