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Yeshua continued traveling through town after town and village after village, teaching and making his way toward Yerushalayim.
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Someone asked him, "Are only a few people being saved?"
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He answered, "Struggle to get in through the narrow door, because -- I'm telling you! -- many will be demanding to get in and won't be able to,
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once the owner of the house has gotten up and shut the door. You will stand outside, knocking at the door and saying, `Lord! Open up for us!' But he will answer, `I don't know you or where you come from!'
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Then you will say, `We ate and drank with you! you taught in our streets!'
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and he will tell you, `I don't know where you're from. Get away from me, all you workers of wickedness!'
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You will cry and grind your teeth when you see Avraham, Yitz'chak, Ya`akov and all the prophets inside the Kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown outside.
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Moreover, people will come from the east, the west, the north and the south to sit at table in the Kingdom of God.
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And notice that some who are last will be first, and some who are first will be last."