Luke 14:19-28

¹⁹The next said ‘I have bought five pairs of bullocks, and I am on my way to try them. I must ask you to consider me excused’;

²⁰while the next said ‘I am just married, and for that reason I am unable to come.’

²¹On his return the servant told his master all these answers. Then in anger the owner of the house said to his servant ‘Go out at once into the streets and alleys of the town, and bring in here the poor, and the crippled, and the blind, and the lame.’

²²Presently the servant said ‘Sir, your order has been carried out, and still there is room.’

²³‘Go out,’ the master said, ‘into the roads and hedgerows, and make people come in, so that my house may be filled;

²⁴for I tell you all that not one of those people who were invited will taste my dinner.’”

²⁵One day, when great crowds of people were walking with Jesus, he turned and said to them,

²⁶“If any one comes to me and does not hate their father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yes and even their life, he can be no disciple of mine.

²⁷Whoever does not carry their own cross, and walk in my steps, can be no disciple of mine.

²⁸Why, which of you, when you want to build a tower, does not first sit down and reckon the cost, to see if you have enough to complete it? —