23 And someone said to him, “Lord, are there only[a] a few who are saved?” And he said to them, 24 “Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able to, 25 when once the master of the house has gotten up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door, saying, ‘Lord, open the door[b] for us!’ And he will answer and[c] say to you, ‘I do not know where you are from!’

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 13:23 Literally “if”
  2. Luke 13:25 Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
  3. Luke 13:25 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“answer”) has been translated as a finite verb