23 Someone said to Jesus, “Lord, how many people will be saved? Only a few?”Jesus said,
24 “Try hard to enter through the narrow door that opens the way to heaven! Many people will try to enter there, but they will not be able.
25 A man gets up and closes the door of his house. You can stand outside and knock on the door. 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 But he will say to you, ‘I don’t know you! Where did you come from? Go away from me! All of you do evil!’
28 You will see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in God’s kingdom. But you will be thrown outside. Then 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 the kingdom of God.