25Large crowds were now traveling with Jesus, and He turned and said to them,
26“If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters—yes, even his own life—he cannot be My disciple.
27 And whoever does not carry his cross and follow Me cannot be My disciple.
28Which of you, wishing to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost to see if he has the resources to complete it?
29 Otherwise, if he lays the foundation and is unable to finish the work, everyone who sees it will ridicule him,
30 saying, ‘This man could not finish what he started to build.’
31 Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
32 And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace. 33 In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
Do you have to really hate your family, even hate your own life to be a disciple?
What is being stated here and why?
Agreeing with all of you and your ideas about what it means when Yeshua/Jesus says to the large crowds which were traveling along side the disciples when he turns toward them.
Saying Listen all of you people traveling along side of me and my disciples here is truly what it means, you must leave your family behind, brothers, sisters, cats, dogs, everything must be given to be an disciple.
He tells the people along side of them (Yeshua, and His disciples).
"Who doesn't stop and think if he may decide to build a tower, and count up how much there is to spend on the resources to complete it, only to because of failure of the ability to be able to complete the tower to start with. "
Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men and the other king against him is twenty thousand?
Would not the King, try to seek and send delegation towards the other king who has more to settle down and ask for terms of peace, before any attacks occur? In the same way, any one of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be My disciple.
It seems to tell the reader that the thoughts that had entered the mind of those who were just spoken to about what it means to become a disciple of Yeshua/Jesus the messiah. What type of thoughts do you think you would believe you just heard by reading the words yourself?
You would have to give up everything you owned now today and follow and no longer travel along side, but to become one with him through prayer and reading scriptures. If you were there you only have Yeshua there in front of you and deciding to travel back home because God would have wanted them still to go back home to their mothers and love their brothers and sisters. Because they were important too, but it took giving up everything to just follow Yeshua.
Which was a job for the hand picked disciples themselves, and we see that they are together here in this verse along with the crowds. If you look at the closeness of Yeshua and the disciples and how they had been so close to him in that day, we are able to have a close relationship with our Lord Jesus Christ, by the glory of God our Father, who desires all to come the understanding of truth, and comfort of caring for your family members and neighbors, which comes by the spirit of the Lord.
To pray, seek a relationship with the Lord, and God and try to live peacefully with all mothers, dads, brothers, sisters, cousins and all people the best we can by the spirit that is in all believers of God, who writes in the minds and hearts of others no matter who they are when anyone share the good news of Jesus to someone to help them along their journey for the glory of God.
