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11 Later,[a] the other virgins came too, saying, ‘Lord, lord! Let us in!’[b] 12 But he replied,[c] ‘I tell you the truth,[d] I do not know you!’ 13 Therefore stay alert, because you do not know the day or the hour.[e]

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  1. Matthew 25:11 tn Here δέ (de) has not been translated.
  2. Matthew 25:11 tn Grk “Open to us.”
  3. Matthew 25:12 tn Grk “But answering, he said.” This is somewhat redundant and has been simplified in the translation.
  4. Matthew 25:12 tn Grk “Truly (ἀμήν, amēn), I say to you.”
  5. Matthew 25:13 tc Most later mss (C3 Γ ƒ13 1241 1424c M) add here “in which the Son of Man is coming” (ἐν ᾗ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ἔρχεται, en |ē ho huios tou anthrōpou erchetai), reproducing almost verbatim the last line of Matt 24:44. The longer reading thus appears to be an explanatory expansion and should not be considered authentic. The earlier and better witnesses (P35 א A B C* D L W Δ Θ ƒ1 33 565 892 1424* al lat co) lack this phrase.