Luke 13:22-30

The Narrow Door

22 ¹He went on his way through towns and villages, teaching and ²journeying toward Jerusalem.

23 And someone said to him, "Lord, ³will those who are saved be few?" And he said to them,

24 ⁴"Strive ⁵to enter through the narrow door. For many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

25 ⁶When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and to knock at the door, saying, ⁷'Lord, open to us,' then he will answer you, ⁸'I do not know where you come from.'

26 Then you will begin to say, ⁹'We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.'

27 But he will say, 'I tell you, ¹⁰I do not know where you come from. ¹¹Depart from me, all you workers of evil!'

28 ¹²In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see ¹³Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God but ¹⁴you yourselves cast out.

29 And ¹⁵people will come from east and west, and from north and south, and ¹⁶recline at table in the kingdom of God.

30 And behold, ¹⁷some are last who will be first, and some are first who will be last."

Cross References

• 1. See Mark 6:6
• 2. [ver. 33]; See Luke 9:51
• 3. Acts 2:47; 1 Corinthians 1:18; 2 Corinthians 2:15
• 4. 1 Timothy 4:10; Hebrews 12:4; [1 Timothy 6:12(Gk.)]; See 1 Corinthians 9:25
• 5. Matthew 7:13
• 6. For ver. 25-27, [Matthew 25:10-12]
• 7. Matthew 7:22, 23
• 8. Matthew 10:33; Matthew 25:12; [2 Timothy 2:19]
• 9. [Exodus 24:11]
• 10. [See ver. 25 above]
• 11. See Psalms 6:8
• 12. See Matthew 8:11, 12
• 13. See Matthew 8:11, 12
• 14. See Matthew 8:11, 12
• 15. [See ver. 28 above]
• 16. [Luke 14:15; Luke 22:30]
• 17. See Matthew 19:30