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Gospel Reading - The cost of discipleship

²¹From then on Jesus began to speak plainly to his disciples about going to Jerusalem, and what would happen to him there — that he would suffer at the hands of the Jewish leaders,^a that he would be killed, and that three days later he would be raised to life again.

²²But Peter took him aside to remonstrate with him. “Heaven forbid, sir,” he said. “This is not going to happen to you!”

²³Jesus turned on Peter and said, “Get away from me, you Satan! You are a dangerous trap to me. You are thinking merely from a human point of view, and not from God’s.”

²⁴Then Jesus said to the disciples, “If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. ²⁵For anyone who keeps his life for himself shall lose it; and anyone who loses his life for me shall find it again. ²⁶What profit is there if you gain the whole world — and lose eternal life? What can be compared with the value of eternal life? ²⁷For I, the Son of Mankind, shall come with my angels in the glory of my Father and judge each person according to his deeds. ²⁸And some of you standing right here now will certainly live to see me coming in my Kingdom.”

1. Literally, “of the elders, and chief priests, and scribes.”