Luke 13:25–35

²⁵Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’

“But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from.’^o

²⁶“Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.’

²⁷“But he will reply, ‘I don’t know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!’^p

²⁸“There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth,^q when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out. ²⁹People will come from east and west^r and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God. ³⁰Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last.”^s

Jesus’ Sorrow for Jerusalem

13:34,35pp—Mt 23:37–39 13:34,35Ref—Lk 19:41

³¹At that time some Pharisees came to Jesus and said to him, “Leave this place and go somewhere else. Herod^t wants to kill you.”

³²He replied, “Go tell that fox, ‘I will keep on driving out demons and healing people today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will reach my goal.’^{u 33}In any case, I must press on today and tomorrow and the next day—for surely no prophet^v can die outside Jerusalem!

³⁴“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings,^w and you were not willing. ³⁵Look, your house is left to you desolate.^x I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’^b”^y