23. And the master said to the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, that my house may be filled.
24. For I tell you,none of those men who were invited shall taste my banquet.’”
25. Now great crowds accompanied him, and he turned and said to them,
26. “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
27. Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
28. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?
29. Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,