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# General Information
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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.
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# Enter through the narrow gate ... many people who go through it
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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.
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# Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction
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"The gate is wide and the road is broad that leads to destruction" or "The wide gate and the broad road lead to destruction"
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# to destruction
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This noun can be translated with a verb. Alternate translation: "to the place where people are destroyed"