23. Someone said to him, “Lord, how many people will be saved? Only a few?” Jesus said,
24. “The door to heaven is narrow. Try hard to enter it. Many people will want to enter there, but they will not be able to go in.
25. If a man locks the door of his house, you can stand outside and knock on the door, but he won’t open it. You can say, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’ But he will answer, ‘I don’t know you. Where did you come from?’
26. Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you. You taught in the streets of our town.’
27. Then he will say to you, ‘I don’t know you. Where did you come from? Get away from me! You are all people who do wrong!’
28. “You will see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s kingdom. But you will be left outside. There you will cry and grind your teeth with pain.
29. People will come from the east, west, north, and south. They will sit down at the table in God’s kingdom.