And Jesus said to them, "Can the guests of the bridegroom mourn as long as he is with them? The days will come, when the bridegroom will be taken away from them, and then they will fast.

"Then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.

While the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

But at midnight there was a cry: 'Behold, the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.'

And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut.