23. “The lord said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
24. For I tell you that none of those men who were invited will taste of my supper.’”
25. Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them,
26. “If anyone comes to me, and doesn’t disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can’t be my disciple.
27. Whoever doesn’t bear his own cross, and come after me, can’t be my disciple.
28. For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn’t first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it?
29. Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him,
30. saying, ‘This man began to build, and wasn’t able to finish.’
31. Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?