Matthew 8:21
Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
One Unity Resource Bible
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
22But Yeshua [Salvation] said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”
Cross References
Numbers 6:6+ 6:6. Num 6:6 (Num 6:2, 6:6-8) (#1.24): T. The Nazarite shall separate himself and not enter under any covering where there is a corpse and thus become defiled and unclean / R. The Nazarite must not be under the same roof as a corpse “‘All the days that he separates himself to Adonai he shall not go near a dead body.
Matthew 19:29Everyone who has left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, will receive one hundred times, and will inherit eternal life.
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 →