26. If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his [own] father and mother [in the sense of indifference to or relative disregard for them in comparison with his attitude toward God] and [likewise] his wife and children and brothers and sisters–[yes] and even his own life also–he cannot be My disciple.
27. Whoever does not persevere and carry his own cross and come after (follow) Me cannot be My disciple.
28. For which of you, wishing to build a farm building, does not first sit down and calculate the cost [to see] whether he has sufficient means to finish it?
29. Otherwise, when he has laid the foundation and is unable to complete [the building], all who see it will begin to mock and jeer at him,