25. Now large crowds were accompanying Jesus, and turning to them he said,
26. “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother, and wife and children, and brothers and sisters, and 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, doesn’t sit down first and compute the cost to see if he has enough money to complete it?
29. Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation and is not able to finish the tower, all who see it will begin to make fun of him.
30. They will say, ‘This man began to build and was not able to finish!’