²⁵ Now huge crowds were going along with [Jesus], and He turned and said to them,

²⁶ If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his [own] father and mother [^[a]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.