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Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, âSir, open the door for us.â âBut he will answer, âI donât know you or where you come from.â
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âThen you will say, âWe ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.â
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âBut he will reply, âI donât know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!â
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âThere will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out.
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People will come from east and west and north and south, and will take their places at the feast in the kingdom of God.
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Indeed there are those who are last who will be first, and first who will be last.â