Charles Ellicott Commentary Luke 14:27

"Whosoever doth not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple." — Luke 14:27 (ASV)

Whosoever doth not bear his cross . . .—See Note on Matthew 10:38. As now uttered, however, the words had a fresh significance as interpreted by what the disciples had heard from their Master’s lips between Peter’s confession and the Transfiguration (Luke 9:22–23). That “bearing of the cross” was becoming every day more clear and terrible in its growing nearness.