Luke 13:22–30

The Narrow Door

²²Jesus was teaching in every town and village as he traveled toward Jerusalem. ²³Someone said to Jesus, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?”

Jesus said, ²⁴“Try hard to enter through the narrow door, because many people will try to enter there, but they will not be able. ²⁵When the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you can stand outside and knock on the door and say, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’ But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’ ²⁶Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in the streets of our town.’ ²⁷But he will say to you, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from. Go away from me, all you who do evil!’ ²⁸You will cry and grind your teeth with pain when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s kingdom, but you yourselves thrown outside. ²⁹People will come from the east, west, north, and south and will sit down at the table in the kingdom of God. ³⁰There are those who are last now who will be first in the future. And there are those who are first now who will be last in the future.”