Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me. The absolute claim: the love of Jesus must exceed the love of father, mother, son, and daughter. The worthy — the one who meets the standard for kingdom membership — is the one whose love for Jesus reorganizes all other loves. Luke 14:26 uses the stronger hates — if anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother — which in the Hebrew idiom of comparison means loves less than. The disciples are being asked for a love that makes the dearest human loves look like lesser loves by comparison.

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