Matthew 8:18-22 - Would-Be Followers

¹⁸ And Jesus having seen great multitudes about him, did command to depart to the other side; ¹⁹ and a certain scribe having come, said to him, 'Teacher, I will follow thee wherever thou mayest go;'

²⁰ and Jesus saith to him, 'The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may lay the head.'

²¹ And another of his disciples said to him, 'Sir, permit me first to depart and to bury my father;'

²² and Jesus said to him, 'Follow me, and suffer the dead to bury their own dead.'

⁵⁷ And it came to pass, as they are going on in the way, a certain one said unto him, 'I will follow thee wherever thou mayest go, sir;'

⁵⁸ and Jesus said to him, 'The foxes have holes, and the fowls of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may recline the head.' ⁵⁹ And he said unto another, 'Be following me;' and he said, 'Sir, permit me, having gone away, first to bury my father;'

⁶⁰ and Jesus said to him, 'Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, and thou, having gone away, publish the reign of God.'

⁶¹ And another also said, 'I will follow thee, sir, but first permit me to take leave of those in my house;'

⁶² and Jesus said unto him, 'No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'