Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
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Gill's Exposition
When once the master of the house is risen up,.... From table, or off of his couch, the entertainment being over: and so here, the Gospel feast, or dispensation, being at an end, and all the guests…
Barnes' Notes
Strive - Literally, “agonize.” The word is taken from the Grecian games. In their races, and wrestlings, and various athletic exercises, they “strove or agonized,” or put forth all their powers to…
Adam Clarke
Many - will seek - They seek - wish and desire; but they do not strive; therefore, because they will not agonize - will not be in earnest, they shall not get in. See this subject more particularly…
We have here,
I. A question put to our Lord Jesus. Who it was that put it we are not told, whether a friend or a foe; for he both gave a great liberty of questioning him and returned answers to the…
Cambridge Bible
Strive The word implies the strong efforts of a contest. 1Ti 6:12.
at the strait gate Rather, through the narrow door; reading thuras (א, B, D, L) for pules. Mat 7:13.
will seek to enter in, and shall…
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