Matthew 25:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

But in the middle of the night there is a cry, The husband comes! Go out to him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μέσης δὲ νυκτὸς κραυγὴ γέγονεν, Ἰδού, ὁ νυμφίος ἔρχεται· ἐξέρχεσθε εἰς ἀπάντησιν αὐτοῦ.

Transliteration

Mesēs de nyktos kraugē gegonen, Idou, the nymphios erchetai; exerchesthe to apantēsin of him.

Grammar Details

• *mesēs*: genitive feminine singular - middle/midst
• *de*: postpositive particle - but/and
• *nyktos*: genitive feminine singular - of night
• *kraugē*: nominative feminine singular - cry/shout
• *gegonen*: perfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - has occurred
• *idou*: interjection - behold/look
• *nymphios*: nominative masculine singular - bridegroom
• *erchetai*: present middle indicative, 3rd person singular - comes/is coming
• *exerchesthe*: present middle imperative, 2nd person plural - go out/come out
• *apantēsin*: accusative feminine singular - meeting/encounter

Word Meanings

• *mesēs*: middle/midst/middle part of
• *de*: but/and/now
• *nyktos*: night/darkness
• *kraugē*: cry/shout/outcry
• *gegonen*: has occurred/has been made/has happened
• *idou*: behold/look/see
• *nymphios*: bridegroom/newly married man
• *erchetai*: comes/is coming/arrives
• *exerchesthe*: go out/come out/depart
• *apantēsin*: meeting/encounter/reception

Referenced Verses

• Ps 50:3-6 : 3 Our God will come, and will not keep quiet; with fire burning before him, and storm-winds round him. 4 His voice will go out to the heavens and to the earth, for the judging of his people: 5 Let my saints come together to me; those who have made an agreement with me by offerings. 6 And let the heavens make clear his righteousness; for God himself is the judge. (Selah.)
• Ps 96:13 : 13 Before the Lord, for he is come; he is come to be the judge of the earth; the earth will be judged in righteousness, and the peoples with unchanging faith.
• Ps 98:9 : 9 Before the Lord, for he has come as judge of the earth; judging the world in righteousness, and giving true decisions for the peoples.
• Isa 25:9 : 9 And in that day it will be said, See, this is our God; we have been waiting for him, and he will be our saviour: this is the Lord in whom is our hope; we will be glad and have delight in his salvation.
• Amos 4:12 : 12 So this is what I will do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, be ready for a meeting with your God, O Israel.
• Mal 3:1-2 : 1 See, I am sending my servant, and he will make ready the way before me; and the Lord, whom you are looking for, will suddenly come to his Temple; and the angel of the agreement, in whom you have delight, see, he is coming, says the Lord of armies. 2 But by whom may the day of his coming be faced? and who may keep his place when he is seen? for he is like the metal-tester's fire and the cleaner's soap.
• Matt 24:31 : 31 And he will send out his angels with a great sound of a horn, and they will get his saints together from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
• Matt 24:44 : 44 Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come.
• Matt 25:1 : 1 Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins, the friends of the bride, who took their lights, and went out with the purpose of meeting the husband.
• Matt 25:31 : 31 But when the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then will he be seated in his glory:
• Mark 13:33-37 : 33 Take care, keep watch with prayer: for you are not certain when the time will be. 34 It is as when a man who is in another country for a time, having gone away from his house, and given authority to his servants and to everyone his work, gives the porter an order to keep watch. 35 So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning; 36 For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping. 37 And what I say to you, I say to all, Keep watch.
• Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
• Luke 12:38-40 : 38 And if he comes in the second division of the night or in the third, and they are watching for him, happy are those servants. 39 But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into. 40 So be ready: for the Son of man is coming at a time when you are not looking for him.
• Luke 12:46 : 46 The lord of that servant will come at a time when he is not looking for him, and at an hour when he is not ready for him, and he will have him cut in two and will give him his part in the fate of those who have no faith;
• John 5:28-29 : 28 Do not be surprised at this: for the time is coming when his voice will come to all who are in the place of the dead, 29 And they will come out; those who have done good, into the new life; and those who have done evil, to be judged.
• 1 Thess 4:16 : 16 Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;
• 1 Thess 5:1-3 : 1 But about the times and their order, my brothers, there is no need for me to say anything to you. 2 For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. 3 When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.
• 2 Thess 1:7-9 : 7 And to you who are troubled, rest with us, when the Lord Jesus comes from heaven with the angels of his power in flames of fire, 8 To give punishment to those who have no knowledge of God, and to those who do not give ear to the good news of our Lord Jesus: 9 Whose reward will be eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his strength, 10 At his coming, when he will have glory in his saints, and will be a cause of wonder in all those who had faith (because our witness among you had effect) in that day.
• 2 Pet 3:10 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.
• Jude 1:14-15 : 14 The prophet Enoch, who was the seventh after Adam, said of these men, The Lord came with tens of thousands of his saints, 15 To be the judge of all, and to give a decision against all those whose lives are unpleasing to him, because of the evil acts which they have done, and because of all the hard things which sinners without fear of God have said against him.
• Rev 16:15 : 15 (See, I come as a thief. Happy is he who is watching and keeps his robes, so that he may not go unclothed, and his shame be seen.)
• Rev 19:7-9 : 7 Let us be glad with delight, and let us give glory to him: because the time is come for the Lamb to be married, and his wife has made herself ready. 8 And to her it was given to be clothed in delicate linen, clean and shining: for the clean linen is the righteousness of the saints. 9 And he said to me, Put in the book, Happy are the guests at the bride-feast of the Lamb. And he said to me, These are the true words of God.