Luke 13:22–30

The Narrow Door

^22mHe went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and ⁿjourneying toward Jerusalem. ²³And someone said to him, “Lord, ^owill those who are saved be few?” And he said to them, ^24p“Strive ^qto enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able. ^25rWhen once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ^s‘Lord, open to us,’ then he will answer you, ^t‘I do not know where you come from.’ ²⁶Then you will begin to say, ^u‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’ ²⁷But he will say, ‘I tell you, ^tI do not know where you come from. ^vDepart from me, all you workers of evil!’ ^28wIn that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see ^wAbraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but ^wyou yourselves cast out. ²⁹And ^wpeople will come from east and west, and from north and south, and ^xrecline at table in the kingdom of God. ³⁰And behold, ^ysome are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last.”