..."Another said, 'I have just been married and therefore I cannot come" 14:26 "Whoever comes Matt. 10:37 to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children. . .* 15:8-9 "Or what woman having ten silver coins, if she loses one of them. . . When she has found...

...that Fiorenza sees as addressing patriarchal structures is found in texts like Luke 14:26 ("Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple"), where she finds the "a-familial ethos of the Jesus...

..."those who have wives be as though they had none" (1 Cor 7:29), and that Jesus himself said: "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:26). This kind of celibacy may also perhaps...

...When Jesus notices that great crowds of people are traveling with him, he turns and says: "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple. Whoever does not carry the cross and follow me cannot...

...extrafamilial relationships. In vigorous, vivid hyperbole, Jesus declares in the Gospel of Luke, "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:26; cf. Matt. 10:37). l In another scene...

...them have it their way. Instead he warns them about the excessive cost of being his disciple. "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:26). What does Jesus mean when he says that...

...for a Greek-speaking audience of the difficult Hebrew or Aramaic idiom used in Luke 14:26, "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple." "Hate," of course, is not meant literally; it is...

...(23:46). Jesus expects the same uncompromising allegiance to God from those who would follow him: "Whoever comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, you cannot be my disciple" (14:26). He tells the twelve that "unless you...

...come" (Luther). [231 [22.] Matthew 11:30. CHAPTER FIVE DlSCIPLESHIP AND THE INDIVIDUAL 87 "WHOEVER COMES TO ME and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and even life itself, cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:26).") Jesus' call to discipleship makes...

...Again, "if anyone wishes to come to me and does not hate father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple."^ Francis did not intentionally aim at reforming the church, but did so. He could never have lived in...