Wide Is The Gate

Album: Et Tu, Brute? (2013)
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Songfacts®:

  • The title comes from scripture, a passage from Matthew 7:13-14 that reads:

    Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.

    The song reflects the spiritual beliefs of The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus frontman Ronnie Winter, who is also their lyricist.
  • The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus embraced their Christian fanbase with this song and the others from their 2013 EP Et Tu, Brute? Their first album, Don't You Fake It, was released in 2006 on Virgin Records and includes the hit "Face Down," a gripping song about domestic violence that was big in mainstream rock circles but also went to #1 on the Christian Rock chart. The band left Virgin in 2010 and went in a more Christian direction. "Wide Is The Gate" also topped the Christian Rock chart, as did five of their other songs, including "Am I the Enemy" and "Remember Me." They got more secular on their 2025 album X's For Eyes.

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