World English Bible

Matthew 25:12

“But he answered, 'Most certainly I tell you, I don't know you.”

Verse in context — Matthew 25

While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.

Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us.

But he answered, 'Most certainly I tell you, I don't know you.

Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.

Jesus as the promised Messiah, fulfilling Old Testament prophecy.