19 And a scribe approached and[a] said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go!” 20 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 head.” 21 And another of the disciples[b] said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 8:19 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“approached”) has been translated as a finite verb
  2. Matthew 8:21 Some manuscripts have “of his disciples”