en_tn_condensed/mat/07/13.md

General Information

In verses 13 and 14, Jesus teaches about how to become a citizen of God's kingdom. He does this by using the image of walking through a gate and along path into a kingdom.

Enter through the narrow gate ... many people who go through it

This is an image of people traveling on a road and going through a gate into a kingdom. One kingdom is easy to enter; the other is hard to enter.

Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction

"The gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction" or "The wide gate and the broad road lead to destruction"

to destruction

This noun can be translated with a verb. Alternate translation: "to the place where people are destroyed"