Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Enter ye in at the strait gate - as if hardly wide enough to admit one at all This expresses the difficulty of the first right step in religion, involving as it does, a triumph over all our natural inclinations. Hence, the still stronger expression in Luke (Luke 13:24), "Strive х agoonizesthe (G75)] to enter in at the strait gate."
For wide is the gate (easily entered) and broad is the way (easily trodden) that leadeth to destruction, and (thus lured) many there be which go in thereat: