Each of the ten virgins wants to get into the wedding feast. They are all there, all prepared, at least prepared for the rational. Some are prepared for the irrational and have lugged along extra oil for their lamps. Knowing this, we start scouring the parable to figure out the specifics. What is the oil? What is the lamp? But none of that matters, because none of that gets the virgins into the wedding feast. They all had an invitation. They all had a lamp and they all had enough oil at the beginning. But none of those things were their ticket into the feast. So their ticket inside has to be something else, has to be someone else…