Luke 14:32
"If he cannot, while the other king is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy to ask conditions of peace.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
33"Just so any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
Cross References
Luke 12:58"For as you go before the magistrate with your opponent do your utmost to get quit of him, lest he drag you before the judge, and the judge delivers you over to the officer, and the officer cast you into prison.
James 4:6But he gives more and more grace. therefore it is said, God ever resists the proud; but to the humble he gives grace continually.
Matthew Henry on Luke 14:26-35
The Necessity of Self-denial. 25 And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them, 26 If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple. 27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? 29 Lest haply, after… Read the whole commentary →