Luke 13:27 → Amos 3:2

Concluding the narrow-door warning, Jesus tells the presumptuous, "I do not know where you are from. Depart from me, all you evildoers" (Luke 13:27), and announces the great reversal: "People will come from east and west and north and south, and will recline at the table in the kingdom of God" (13:29), while the sons of the kingdom are shut out. Amos 3:2 is the ironic counterpart of the first word: "Only you have I known from all the families of the earth; therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities." Israel's unique election, presumed to guarantee acceptance, is precisely what heightens accountability — being "known" by God is no talisman, and those who trade on it while working evil hear, "I do not know where you are from." The link is one of idea rather than wording: Luke's verb for knowing is not the one the Greek of Amos uses, and Amos 3:2 is one of several Old Testament texts that speak of being known by God (Jeremiah 1:5; Hosea 13:5). The method is Contrast serving a longitudinal Kingdom theme — the narrowing of covenant privilege overturned by the expansion of grace to all nations. The telos is the Host of that table: entry turns entirely on being known by Him (cf. Matthew 7:23), and the door that shuts on the self-assured is the same door flung open to strangers — for the Master of the house is the crucified and risen Jesus, and to be welcomed to recline with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob is to be welcomed by Him.