World English Bible

Matthew 25:5

“Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.”

Verse in context — Matthew 25

Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,

but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

But at midnight there was a cry, 'Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!

Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

Jesus as the promised Messiah, fulfilling Old Testament prophecy.