Luke 13:22-30 - The Narrow Door

²² So he went about among the towns and villages, teaching and making his way toward Jerusalem. ²³ And someone said to him, "Are only a few to be saved, Master?" He said to them, ²⁴ "You must strain every nerve to get in through the narrow door, for I tell you many will try to get in, and will not succeed, ²⁵ when the master of the house gets up and shuts the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock on the door, and say, 'Open it for us, sir!' Then he will answer you and say, 'I do not know where you come from,' ²⁶ Then you will go on to say, 'We have been entertained with you, and you have taught in our streets!' ²⁷ And he will say to you, 'I do not know where you come from. Get away from me, all you wrongdoers!' ²⁸ There you will weep and gnash your teeth when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the Kingdom of God, while you are put outside. ²⁹ People will come from the east and west and the north and south, and take their places in the Kingdom of God. ³⁰ There are those now last who will then be first, and there are those now first who will be last."