Now five of them were foolish and five were wise. For when[a] the foolish ones took their lamps, they did not take olive oil with them. But the wise ones took olive oil in flasks with their lamps.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 25:3 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“took”) which is understood as temporal

Five of them were foolish and five were wise.(A) The foolish ones took their lamps but did not take any oil with them. The wise ones, however, took oil in jars along with their lamps.

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