126. An Answer to the Question: “Are There Few Who Are Saved?” Lk. 13:22–30

And the Lord went through the cities and villages, teaching and making His way toward Jerusalem.

And someone said to Him: Lord, are there few that are being saved? And He said to them: Strive to enter through the narrow door, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. When once the master of the house has risen and shut the door, then you will stand outside and knock at the door, saying: Lord, Lord, open to us; but He will answer you: I do not know you, where you are from. Then you will begin to say: We ate and drank before You, and You taught in our streets. But He will say: I tell you, I do not know you, where you are from; depart from Me, all you workers of iniquity. 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 yourselves cast out. And they will come from east and west and north and south, and will recline at table in the Kingdom of God. And behold, some are last that will be first, and some are first that will be last.