Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
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Gill's Exposition
Beware of false prophets,.... Or false teachers; for not such who pretended to foretell things to come, but such who set up themselves to be teachers of others, are here meant; see Pe2 2:1. It may be…
Enter ye in at the strait gate - Christ here compares the way to life to an entrance through a gate. The words “straight” and “strait” have very different meanings. The former means “not crooked;” the…
Our Lord Jesus here presses upon us that righteousness towards men which is an essential branch of true religion, and that religion towards God which is an essential branch of universal…
Cambridge Bible
because To be taken after "enter ye" as in preceding verse, or it gives a reason why many go in at the wide gate.
narrow Literally, pressed, confined.
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