A crowd is following him.

If anyone comes to me and does not hate his mother and father, his wife and children, his sisters and brothers, and yes, his own life, he cannot be my disciple.

If any of you intended to build a tower, wouldn’t he first sit down and count the cost to see whether he can afford to finish it?

Otherwise he might lay the foundation and not be able to go on.

People will look and laugh.

They’ll say, he started but couldn’t finish.

What king going to make war against another king doesn’t sit down and consider whether his ten thousand soldiers can defeat his enemies twenty thousand.

If they can’t, he sends a message and sues for peace while the other army is a great way off.

So who even among you does not forsake everything can’t be my disciple.