Take Up Your Cross and Follow Jesus

24 ^oThen Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and ^ptake up his cross and ^qfollow me.

21 Jesus said to him, “If you would be ^xperfect, go, ^ysell what you possess and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, ^zfollow me.”

Jesus Calls Levi

27 ^wAfter this he went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax booth. And he said to him, ^x“Follow me.”