Luke 9:23-25
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
23 Then he said to all, “If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily[a] and follow me.(A) 24 For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake will save it.(B) 25 What profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?
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- 9:23 Daily: this is a Lucan addition to a saying of Jesus, removing the saying from a context that envisioned the imminent suffering and death of the disciple of Jesus (as does the saying in Mk 8:34–35) to one that focuses on the demands of daily Christian existence.
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