^59 (A)Then He said to another, “Follow Me.”

But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”

Take Up the Cross and Follow Him^(A)

^24 (B)Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and ^(C)follow Me.

³³ But ^(A)seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

²⁰ And he left the oxen and ran after Elijah, and said, ^(A)“Please let me kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow you.”

And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?”

^21 (A)Then another of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, ^(B)let me first go and bury my father.”

²² But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”

² “Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, saying: ‘This people says, “The time has not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built.” ’ ”

Matthew the Tax Collector^(A)

^9 (B)As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.” So he arose and followed Him.

¹⁹ Then He said to them, “Follow Me, and ^(A)I will make you fishers of men.” ^20 (B)They immediately left their nets and followed Him.

^21 (C)Going on from there, He saw two other brothers, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in the boat with Zebedee their father, mending their nets. He called them, ²² and immediately they left the boat and their father, and followed Him.