Luke 14:25

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

Now large crowds were following Jesus and He turned [around] and said to them,

Cross References

Luke 12:1

About this time, while a crowd of many thousands had assembled, [so large that] people were trampling on one another, Jesus first began telling His disciples, “Watch out for the leavening [effect] of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Luke 14:24

For I tell you, not one of those who were invited will [even] taste my supper.”

Luke 14:26

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