Luke 13:24-35

24“Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because I tell you, many will try to enter and won’t be able

25once the homeowner gets up and shuts the door. Then you will stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open up for us! ’ He will answer you, ‘I don’t know you or where you’re from.’

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

27But he will say, ‘I tell you, I don’t know you or where you’re from. Get away from me, all you evildoers!’

28There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth in that place, when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but yourselves thrown out.

29They will come from east and west, from north and south, to share the banquet in the kingdom of God.

30Note this: Some who are last will be first, and some who are first will be last.”

31At that time some Pharisees came and told him, “Go, get out of here. Herod wants to kill you.”

32He said to them, “Go tell that fox, ‘Look, I’m driving out demons and performing healings today and tomorrow, and on the third day I will complete my work.’

33Yet it is necessary that I travel today, tomorrow, and the next day, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish outside of Jerusalem.

34“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

35See, your house is abandoned to you. I tell you, you will not see me until the time comes when you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord’!”