23. And the master said to the slave, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges and press them to come in, so that my house will be filled!
24. For I say to you that none of those persons who were invited will taste my banquet!’ ”
25. Now large crowds were going along with him, and he turned around 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, and furthermore, even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
27. Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.
28. For which of you, wanting to build a tower, does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if he has enough to complete it?
29. Otherwise after he has laid the foundation and is not able to finish it, all who see it will begin to ridicule him,
30. saying, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish!’