Luke 13:22–30

The Narrow Door

²²Jesus went through towns and villages, teaching the people and making his way towards Jerusalem. ²³Someone asked him, “Sir, will just a few people be saved?”

Jesus answered them, ²⁴“Do your best to go in through the narrow door; because many people will surely try to go in but will not be able. ²⁵The master of the house will get up and close the door; then when you stand outside and begin to knock on the door and say, ‘Open the door for us, sir!’ he will answer you, ‘I don’t know where you come from!’ ²⁶Then you will answer, ‘We ate and drank with you; you taught in our town!’ ^27*But he will say again, ‘I don’t know where you come from. Get away from me, all you wicked people!’ ^28*How you will cry and grind your teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, while you are thrown out! ^29*People will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down at the feast in the Kingdom of God. ^30*Then those who are now last will be first, and those who are now first will be last.”