their registered ones were eight thousand five hundred and eighty.
And the Lĕ
All the registered ones of the Lĕ
from thirty years old and above, even to fifty years old, all who came to do the work of service and the work of bearing burdens in the Tent of Meeting,
“Thus the last shall be first, and the first last. For many are called, but few chosen.”
Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to trap Him in His words.
“Because the gate is narrow and the way is hard pressed which leads to life, and there are few who find it.