7:12 ... all things whatsoever you would want that people should do to you, do the same to them: for this is the Torah and the Prophets.
7:13-14 Enter in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leads to destruction, and there are many which go in there. For the gate is strait, and the way is narrow, which leads unto life, and there are few that find it.
Yehoshua was not sent to condemn the world but that through him the world might be saved, (John 3). In chapters 7 and 8 we find him healing the Many so that they might become the Few - who though they are few are more in number in the end than the stars of heaven. As it says in Revelation 7:9 "After this I looked, and with amazement I saw a great multitude, which no one could number, from all nations, and families, and ethnicities, and languages. They stood before the throne, and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes, and palms in their hands. 10 All these masses cried with a loud voice, saying, Salvation is from our God who sits upon the throne, and from the Lamb.'
Masses of people that no one can number are not a number characterized as a few. What then is the saying of Yehoshua teaching? He is describing the condition of the world that was then before his eyes and is even yet before our eyes. There are few who he saw doing unto others as they would have others do unto them, and there was many doing unto others whatever served themselves and their own judgment of others. Thus, the strait gate that leads to life was being entered by few, while the broad way of destruction was being taken by many.
Therefore we must read these words in chapter 7:13-14 with the words in chapter 8:14-17:
8:14-16 And when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laying in bed sick with a fever. And he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she rose up out of bed, and immediately began to wait on them. When evening came, they brought unto him many who were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all who were sick:
8:17 This was done in connection with what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah, "He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases."
The Many who were healed in Yehoshua's demonstrations of sharing the power of his faith and his love for tormented humanity were representative cases of all of us who share the ancient fallen nature of Adam, who are all together as one spiritually sick and demonized. Isaiah the prophet speaks for Israel in order that Israel might speak for us all, saying, "He took our infirmities, and bore our diseases." He healed the great masses of humanity, who were all going into the broad way of selfishness that leads to destruction, and brought them into the power of the strait gate of his self-sacrifice, the narrow way of his own golden rule.
