²³ Someone said to Him, “Lord, will those who are saved be few?”

He said to them, ²⁴ “Strive to enter through the narrow gate. For many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able. ²⁵ Once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ He will answer you, ‘I do not know where you come from.’

²⁶ “Then you will begin to say, ‘We ate and drank in your presence, and you taught in our streets.’

²⁷ “But He will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know you, or where you come from. Depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity.’

²⁸ “There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out. ²⁹ They will come from the east and from the west and from the north and from the south and will sit down to dine in the kingdom of God. ³⁰ Listen, there are the last who will be first, and the first who will be last.”