24耶稣对众人说,你们要努力进窄门。我告诉你们,将来有许多人想要进去,却是不能。那时后悔或悔改也不管用了!
He said to them, "Make every effort to enter through the narrow door, because many, I tell you, will try to enter and will not be able to.
25及至家主起来关了门,你们站在外面叩门,说,主阿,给我们开门,他就回答说,我不认识你们,不晓得你们是哪里来的。
Once the owner of the house gets up and closes the door, you will stand outside knocking and pleading, 'Sir, open the door for us.'"But he will answer, 'I don't know you or where you come from.'
26那时,你们要说,我们在你面前吃过喝过,你也在我们的街上教训过人。
"Then you will say, 'We ate and drank with you, and you taught in our streets.'
27他要说,我告诉你们,我不晓得你们是哪里来的。你们这一切作恶的人,离开我去吧。
"But he will reply, 'I don't know you or where you come from. Away from me, all you evildoers!'
28你们要看见亚伯拉罕,以撒,雅各,和众先知,都在神的国里,你们却被赶到外面。在那里必要哀哭切齿了。
"There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves thrown out.