Luke 9:59
Good News Translation
He said to another man, "Follow me." But that man said, "Sir, first let me go back and bury my father."

New Revised Standard Version
To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

Contemporary English Version
Jesus told someone else to come with him. But the man said, "Lord, let me wait until I bury my father."

New American Bible
And to another he said, “Follow me.” But he replied, “[Lord,] let me go first and bury my father.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he said to another: Follow me. And he said: Lord, suffer me first to go and to bury my father.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But he said to another: Follow me. And he said: Lord, suffer me first to go and to bury my father.

Follow me.

Matthew 4:19-22 And he saith to them: Come ye after me, and I will make you to be fishers of men. . . .

Matthew 9:9 And when Jesus passed on from thence, he saw a man sitting in the custom house, named Matthew; and he saith to him: Follow me. And he arose up and followed him.

Matthew 16:24 Then Jesus said to his disciples: If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

suffer.

1 Kings 19:20 And he forthwith left the oxen, and run after Elias, and said: Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said to him: Go, and return back: for that which was my part, I have done to thee.

Haggai 1:2 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, saying: This people saith: The time is not yet come for building the house of the Lord.

Matthew 6:33 Seek ye therefore first the kingdom of God, and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.

Matthew 8:21,22 And another of his disciples said to him: Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. . . .

Context
The Cost of Discipleship
58Jesus said to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests: but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head. 59But he said to another: Follow me. And he said: Lord, suffer me first to go and to bury my father. 60And Jesus said to him: Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.…
Cross References
Matthew 8:22
But Jesus said to him: Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead.

Luke 9:60
And Jesus said to him: Let the dead bury their dead: but go thou and preach the kingdom of God.

Luke 9:58
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