24. I tell you all that none of those who were invited will taste my dinner!’ ”
25. Once when large crowds of people were going along with Jesus, he turned and said to them,
26. “Those who come to me cannot be my disciples unless they love me more than they love father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and themselves as well.
27. Those who do not carry their own cross and come after me cannot be my disciples.