Hi everyone. Welcome back to Logical Bible Study and we're continuing to move through the Gospel of Luke.

We're in the middle section of the Gospel of Luke, which is quite an extended section where Jesus moves from

Galilee to Jerusalem. And Luke has this as a very long section. The other gospels don't really

tell us a whole lot about this last part of Jesus' life before he gets to Jerusalem. But Luke

tells us quite a bit. So if you go to Mass today, you would hear from Luke

chapter 14, verses 25 to 33. Great crowds accompanied Jesus on his way, and he turned and spoke

to them. If any man comes to me without hating his father, mother, wife, children, brothers, sisters, yes, and his own

life too, he cannot be my disciple.

Anyone who does not carry his cross and come after me cannot be my disciple.

And indeed, which of you here, intending to build a tower, would not first sit down

and work out the cost to see if he had enough to complete it? Otherwise, if he laid the foundation

and then found himself unable to finish the work, the onlookers would all start making

fun of him, and saying, here is a man who started to build

and was unable to finish. Or again, what king marching to war against another king would

not first sit down and consider whether with 10,000 men he could stand up to the other who

advanced against him with 20,000. If not, then while the

other king was still a long way off, he would send envoys to sue for peace. So in the same

way, none of you can be my disciple unless he gives up all his possessions. So a fairly radical teaching here, and you've

probably heard these words before, particularly this section about if you don't hate your family,

you can't be my disciple. So we'll get into that. Let's remember the context. So at this stage,

Jesus is moving from Galilee to Judea for the last part of his ministry.

He's doing ministry along the way, and he's speaking to the crowds.

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