Matthew 7:13-14·~1 min
The Narrow Gate
Jesus commands entry through the narrow gate and sets the broad way against it as the path many choose and destruction follows. He then names the small gate and narrow way as the path that leads to life and is found by only a few.
E13nter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. 14But small is the gate and narrow the way that leads to life, and only a few find it.
Section summaryJesus sets two ways before the crowd: one broad and crowded, the other narrow and difficult. One ends in destruction, the other in life, and only a few find it.
Role in the chapterThis brief movement sharpens the Sermon into a choice between competing roads, with the end of each road already named.