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And the servant came back and gave his master an account of these things. Then the master of the house was angry and said to the servant, Go out quickly into the streets of the town and get the poor, the blind, and those who are broken in body.
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And the servant said, Lord, your orders have been done, and still there is room.
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And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the roads and the fields, and make them come in, so that my house may be full.
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For I say to you that not one of those who were requested to come will have a taste of my feast.
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Now a great number of people went with him.
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And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple.
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Whoever does not take up his cross and come after me may not be my disciple.
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For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete?
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For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him,
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And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete.
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Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand?