But he will say, ‘I tell you, I do not know where you come from. Depart from me, all you workers of evil!’
We have here, I. A question put to our Lord Jesus. Who it was that put it we are not told, whether a friend or a foe; for he both gave a great liberty of questioning him and returned answers to the thoughts and intents of the heart. The question was, Are there few that are saved? Luk 13:23 : ei oligoi hoi sōzomenoi - "If the saved be few?
Commenting on Luke 13:23-30
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth,.... See Gill on Mat 8:12. This will be upon hearing the above sentence and character, "depart from me", &c. and will be increased, when ye shall see Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: whose offspring they were, and to whom they stood related according to the flesh; and of descent, from whom they boasted, and even trusted in it...
Verse 27. . (z) "But he shall say" (a) "ye workers"