Matthew 8:19
Good News Translation
A teacher of the Law came to him. "Teacher," he said, "I am ready to go with you wherever you go."

New Revised Standard Version
A scribe then approached and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

Contemporary English Version
A teacher of the Law of Moses came up to him and said, "Teacher, I'll go anywhere with you!"

New American Bible
A scribe approached and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And a certain scribe came and said to him: Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou shalt go.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And a certain scribe came and said to him: Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou shalt go.

certain.

Ezra 7:6 This Esdras went up from Babylon, and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God had given to Israel: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him.

Mark 12:32-34 And the scribe said to him: Well, Master, thou hast said in truth that there is one God and there is no other besides him. . . .

Luke 9:57,58 And it came to pass, as they walked in the way, that a certain man said to him: I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest. . . .

1 Corinthians 1:20 Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

I will.

Luke 14:25-27,33 And there went great multitudes with him. And turning, he said to them: . . .

Luke 22:33,34 Who said to him: Lord, I am ready to go with thee, both into prison and to death. . . .

John 13:36-38 Simon Peter saith to him: Lord, whither goest thou? Jesus answered: Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now: but thou shalt follow hereafter. . . .

Context
The Cost of Discipleship
18And Jesus seeing great multitudes about him, gave orders to pass over the water. 19And a certain scribe came and said to him: Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou shalt go. 20And Jesus saith 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.…
Cross References
Luke 9:57
And it came to pass, as they walked in the way, that a certain man said to him: I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.

1 Corinthians 16:6
And with you perhaps I shall abide, or even spend the winter: that you may bring me on my way whithersoever I shall go.

Matthew 8:18
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