Matthew 24:10
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At that time many will fall away and will betray and hate one another,
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PARABLE OF THE TEN VIRGINS. (Mat 25:1-13) Then--at the time referred to at the close of the preceding chapter, the time of the Lord's Second Coming to reward His faithful servants and take vengeance on the faithless. Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom--This supplies a key to the parable, whose object is, in the main, the same as that of the last parable--to illustrate the vigilant and expectant attitude of faith, in respect of which believers are described as "they that look for Him" (Heb 9:28), and "love His appearing" (Ti2 4:8). In the last parable it was that of servants waiting for their absent Lord; in this it is that of virgin attendants on a Bride, whose duty it was to go forth at night with lamps, and be ready on the appearance of the Bridegroom to conduct the Bride to his house, and go in with him to the marriage. This entire and beautiful change of figure brings out the lesson of the former parable in quite a new light. But let it be observed that, just as in the parable of the Marriage Supper, so in this--the Bride does not come into view at all in this parable; the Virgins and the Bridegroom holding forth all the intended instruction: nor could believers be represented both as Bride and Bridal Attendants without incongruity.
Open source ↗24:10 Persecution will lead some to abandon loyalty to Jesus (10:25; 13:21; 16:24-28; 26:33).
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Blessed is the one who does not fall away on account of Me.”
You will be betrayed even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you will be put to death.
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
But they themselves have no root, and they remain for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, they quickly fall away.
Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise against their parents and have them put to death.
But since he has no root, he remains for only a season. When trouble or persecution comes because of the word, he quickly falls away.
At my first defense, no one stood with me, but everyone deserted me. May it not be charged against them.
because Demas, in his love of this world, has deserted me and gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
And they took offense at Him. But Jesus said to them, “Only in his hometown and in his own household is a prophet without honor.”
You know that everyone in the Province of Asia has deserted me, including Phygelus and Hermogenes.