024:049 and should begin to beat his fellow servants, while he eats and drinks with drunkards; 024:050 the master of that servant will arrive on a day when he is not expecting him and at an hour of which he has not been informed; 024:051 he will treat him with the utmost severity and assign him a place among the hypocrites: there will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. 025:001 "Then will the Kingdom of the Heavens be found to be like ten bridesmaids who took their torches and went out to meet the bridegroom. 025:002 Five of them were foolish and five were wise. 025:003 For the foolish, when they took their torches, did not provide themselves with oil; 025:004 but the wise, besides their torches, took oil in their flasks. 025:005 The bridegroom was a long time in coming, so that meanwhile they all became drowsy and fell asleep. 025:006 But at midnight there is a loud cry, "`The bridegroom! Go out and meet him!' 025:007 "Then all those bridesmaids roused themselves and trimmed their torches. 025:008 "`Give us some of your oil,' said the foolish ones to the wise, `for our torches are going out.' 025:009 "`But perhaps,' replied the wise, `there will not be enough for all of us. Go to the shops rather, and buy some for yourselves.' 025:010 "So they went to buy. But meanwhile the bridegroom came; those bridesmaids who were ready went in with him to the wedding banquet; and the door was shut. 025:011 "Afterwards the other bridesmaids came and cried, "`Sir, Sir, open the door to us.' 025:012 "`In solemn truth I tell you,' he replied, `I do not know you.' 025:013 "Keep awake therefore; for you know neither the day nor the hour. 025:014 "Why, it is like a man who, when going on his travels, called his bondservants and entrusted his property to their care. 025:015 To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one-- to each according to his individual capacity; and then started from home. 025:016 Without delay the one who had received the five talents went and employed them in business, and gained five more. 025:017 In the same way he who had the two gained two more. 025:018 But the man who had received the one went and dug a hole and buried his master's money. 025:019 "After a long lapse of time the master of those servants returned, and had a reckoning with them. 025:020 The one who had received the five talents came and brought five more, and said, "`Sir, it was five talents that you entrusted to me: see, I have gained five more.' 025:021 "`You have done well, good and trustworthy servant,' replied his master; `you have been trustworthy in the management of a little, I will put you in charge of much: share your master's joy.'