²⁴ `Be striving to go in through the straight gate, because many, I say to you, will seek to go in, and shall not be able;

²⁵ from the time the master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and ye may begin without to stand, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I have not known you whence ye are,

²⁶ then ye may begin to say, We did eat before thee, and did drink, and in our broad places thou didst teach;