13:23. And a certain man said to him: Lord, are they few that are saved? But he said to them:
13:24. Strive to enter by the narrow gate: for many, I say to you, shall seek to enter and shall not be able.
Shall seek, etc… Shall desire to be saved; but for want of taking sufficient pains, and being thoroughly in earnest, shall not attain to it.
13:25. But when the master of the house shall be gone in and shall shut the door, you shall begin to stand without; and knock at the door, saying: Lord, open to us. And he answering, shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are.
13:26. Then you shall begin to say: We have eaten and drunk in thy presence: and thou hast taught in our streets.
13:27. And he shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
13:28. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth; when you shall see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God: and you yourselves thrust out.
13:29. And there shall come from the east and the west and the north and the south: and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.
13:30. And behold, they are last that shall be first: and they are first that shall be last.
13:31. The same day, there came some of the Pharisees, saying to him: Depart, and get thee hence, for Herod hath a mind to kill thee.