Matthew 8:18-22

New Century Version

People Want to Follow Jesus

¹⁸ When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he told his followers to go to the other side of the lake. ¹⁹ Then a teacher of the law came to Jesus and said, “Teacher, I will follow you any place you go.”

²⁰ Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes to live in, and the birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to rest his head.”

²¹ Another man, one of Jesus’ followers, said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

²² But Jesus told him, “Follow me, and let the people who are dead bury their own dead.”