“Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.”
For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few. The narrow gate that leads to life is found, not stumbled upon — the language of finding implies the seek of verse 7. The hard way is hard because it runs counter to the natural inclinations and social pressures that make the broad way easy. Luke 13:23–24 records someone asking whether only a few will be saved, and Jesus' response is to strive to enter through the narrow door. The few who find it are not an elite selected by God for salvation and the many excluded against their will; they are those who paid attention, sought, and found the way that is genuinely there to be found.
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