Whosoever doth not bear his cross... — See Note on Matthew 10:38. As now uttered, however, the words had a fresh significance as interpreted by what the disciples had heard from their Master’s lips between Peter’s confession and the Transfiguration (Luke 9:22-23). That “bearing of the cross” was becoming every day more clear and terrible in its growing nearness.
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Luke 14:27
27 And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.