Would-be Followers

57 And as[a] they were traveling on the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go!” 58 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his[b] head.” 59 And he said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, first allow me to go and[c] bury my father.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 9:57 Here “as” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“were going”)
  2. Luke 9:58 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  3. Luke 9:59 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“go”) has been translated as an infinitive