Whoever does not carry his own cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.

Then he said to them all, “If anyone wants to become my follower, he must deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.

But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to be king over us!’

As she stood behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears. She wiped them with her hair, kissed them, and anointed them with the perfumed oil.

Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”

On that day, anyone who is on the roof, with his goods in the house, must not come down to take them away, and likewise the person in the field must not turn back.

He said, “Watch out that you are not misled. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is near.’ Do not follow them!