21. The servant went and reported this to his master. Then the master of the house in a rage commanded his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town and bring in here the poor and the crippled, the blind and the lame.’
22. The servant reported, ‘Sir, your orders have been carried out and still there is room.’
23. The master then ordered the servant, ‘Go out to the highways and hedgerows and make people come in that my home may be filled.
24. For, I tell you, none of those men who were invited will taste my dinner.’”
25. Great crowds were traveling with him, and he turned and addressed them,
26. “If any one comes to me without hating his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
27. Whoever does not carry his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.
28. Which of you wishing to construct a tower does not first sit down and calculate the cost to see if there is enough for its completion?
29. Otherwise, after laying the foundation and finding himself unable to finish the work the onlookers should laugh at him