The Good Man Jesus And the Scoundrel Christ
“How will we know it? What should we do to be ready for it?
'It'll be like this,' he told them. 'There was a wedding, and ten girls took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom and welcome him to the banquet. Now five of them took their lamps and nothing else, no spare oil, but the other five were a bit cleverer than that, and they brought some flasks of oil with them.
'Well, the bridegroom was delayed, and time went past, and all of the girls began to feel drowsy and closed their ey...es.
'Then at midnight there was a cry: “He's coming! The bridegroom is here!”
'The girls woke up at once and started trimming their lamps. You can see what happened next: the foolish ones discovered that their oil had run out.
'“Give us some of your oil!” they said to the others. “Look, our lamps are going out!”
'And two of the far-seeing ones shared their oil with two of the foolish ones, and all four were admitted to the banquet.MoreLess
'It'll be like this,' he told them. 'There was a wedding, and ten girls took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom and welcome him to the banquet. Now five of them took their lamps and nothing else, no spare oil, but the other five were a bit cleverer than that, and they brought some flasks of oil with them.
'Well, the bridegroom was delayed, and time went past, and all of the girls began to feel drowsy and closed their ey...es.
'Then at midnight there was a cry: “He's coming! The bridegroom is here!”
'The girls woke up at once and started trimming their lamps. You can see what happened next: the foolish ones discovered that their oil had run out.
'“Give us some of your oil!” they said to the others. “Look, our lamps are going out!”
'And two of the far-seeing ones shared their oil with two of the foolish ones, and all four were admitted to the banquet.MoreLess
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