Let's continue from above and show more parallel aspects of doing as he did.
1Jn 2:6 whoever says he abides
in him
ought to walk in the
same way in which he walked.
1Jn 2:7 Beloved, I am writing you no new commandment, but an old commandment that you had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you have heard.
Reference that above passage in John!
Mat 10:37 Whoever loves father or mother more than me is
not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me
is not worthy of me.
Mat 10:38 And whoever
does not take his cross and follow me
is not worthy of me.
WITH reference to what!
Mat 10:39 Whoever finds his life will lose it, and whoever
loses his life for my sake will find it.
Mat 16:24 Then Jesus told his disciples, "If anyone
would come after me, let him
deny himself and take up his cross and follow me.
yeah, we don't have to do anything else do we.