Where is it in the Bible?
Luke 9:23
23Then he said to them all: "Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross daily and follow me.
In other translations
- ESV
- 23And he said to all, "If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
- NLT
- 23Then he said to the crowd, "If any of you wants to be my follower, you must give up your own way, take up your cross daily, and follow me.
- CSB
- 23Then he said to them all, "If anyone wants to follow after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me.
- KJV
- 23And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
The surrounding passage
Luke 9:21–25, King James Version
21And he straitly charged them, and commanded them to tell no man that thing;
22Saying, The Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be slain, and be raised the third day.
23And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.
24For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it.
25For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?
Context
Spoken just after Peter declares Jesus to be the Messiah of God, and Jesus predicts that he must suffer, be rejected, be killed, and be raised on the third day (9:20–22). Jesus then tells everyone what following him involves. Luke's account adds that the cross is to be taken up daily.
About the book of Luke
The orderly Gospel: Jesus' birth, ministry, death, and resurrection.
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