Matthew 8:21
Good News Translation
Another man, who was a disciple, said, "Sir, first let me go back and bury my father."

New Revised Standard Version
Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

Contemporary English Version
Another disciple said to Jesus, "Lord, let me wait till I bury my father."

New American Bible
Another of [his] disciples said to him, “Lord, let me go first and bury my father.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
And another of his disciples said to him: Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

another.

Luke 9:59-62 But he said to another: Follow me. And he said: Lord, suffer me first to go and to bury my father. . . .

suffer.

Matthew 19:29 And every one that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall possess life everlasting.

Leviticus 21:11,12 Nor shall he go in at all to any dead person: not even for his father, or his mother, shall he be defiled. . . .

Numbers 6:6,7 All the time of his consecration he shall not go in to any dead, . . .

Deuteronomy 33:9,10 Who hath said to his father, and to his mother: I do not know you; and to his brethren: I know you not: and their own children they have not known. These have kept thy word, and observed thy covenant, . . .

1 Kings 19:20,21 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.

2 Corinthians 5:16 Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh. And if we have known Christ according to the flesh: but now we know him so no longer.

Context
The Cost of Discipleship
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. 21And another of his disciples said to him: Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. 22But Jesus said to him: Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead.…
Cross References
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.

Matthew 8:20
And 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.

Matthew 8:22
But Jesus said to him: Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead.

Matthew 8:20
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