Luke 9:23 meaning and explanation
Then Jesus said to all of them, “If anyone wants to come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow Me.
Luke 9:23, Berean Standard Bible
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Jesus has just told the disciples that the Son of Man must suffer, be rejected and be killed, and now he extends that path to everyone who would follow him. In Luke's Gospel the cross was a Roman instrument of execution, so the image meant a public, costly loyalty.
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