Polyglot Bible: Matthew: Matthew 25

This is a biblical text — Matthew chapter 25 — presented in parallel columns of the Greek New Testament (GNT) and the King James Version (KJV), with Strong's concordance numbers interspersed throughout the English. The chapter contains three consecutive eschatological units attributed to Jesus: the Parable of the Ten Virgins (vv. 1–13), in which five prepared bridesmaids gain entry to a wedding while five unprepared ones are shut out; the Parable of the Talents (vv. 14–30), in which servants are judged on whether they invested or buried their master's entrusted resources; and the Sheep and Goats discourse (vv. 31–46), a depiction of final judgment in which all nations are separated based on whether they fed the hungry, welcomed strangers, clothed the naked, and visited the imprisoned. The unifying argument across all three sections is eschatological readiness and active, embodied faithfulness — passive inaction (failing to prepare oil, burying a talent, ignoring the suffering) leads to exclusion and condemnation. A particularly distinctive claim appears in the final section: the king identifies himself with "the least of these my brethren," making care for the marginalized literally equivalent to serving Christ — a statement that has driven centuries of Christian social ethics. The format, with Strong's numbers embedded in the KJV, indicates this is a study-Bible or concordance resource intended for word-level Greek-English comparison.

Polyglot Bible: Matthew: Matthew 25

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