Matthew 8:21
And another of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, permit me first to depart and to bury my father”;
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
In Context
22and Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and permit the dead to bury their own dead.”
Cross References
Numbers 6:6All [the] days of his keeping separate to YHWH, he does not go near a dead person;
1 Kings 19:20and he forsakes the ox, and runs after Elijah, and says, “Please let me give a kiss to my father and to my mother, and I go after you.” And he says to him, “Go, turn back, for what have I done to you?”
Matthew 19:29and everyone who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for My Name’s sake, will receive a hundredfold, and will inherit continuous life;
2 Corinthians 5:16So that we, from now on, have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him [thus] no longer;
Matthew Henry on Matthew 8:19-23
Christ's Answer to a Scribe and Another. 18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes about him, he gave commandment to depart unto the other side. 19 And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. 20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. 21 And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. 22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me;… Read the whole commentary →