10. While the foolish girls were on their way to get some oil, the groom arrived. The girls who were ready went into the wedding, and the doors were closed.
11. Later the other girls returned and shouted, “Sir, sir! Open the door for us!”
12. But the groom replied, “I don't even know you!”
13. So, my disciples, always be ready! You don't know the day or the time when all this will happen.
14. The kingdom is also like what happened when a man went away and put his three servants in charge of all he owned.
15. The man knew what each servant could do. So he handed five thousand coins to the first servant, two thousand to the second, and one thousand to the third. Then he left the country.