Matthew 8:18-22

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People Want to Follow Jesus^(A)

¹⁸ When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he ·told [instructed; ordered] his ·followers [disciples] to ·go [cross] to the other side of the lake. ¹⁹ Then a ·teacher of the law [scribe] came to Jesus and said, “·Teacher [Master], I will follow you any place you go.”

²⁰ Jesus said to him, “The foxes have ·holes [dens] to live in, and the birds [^Lof the sky] have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to ·rest [lay] his head.”

²¹ Another man, one of Jesus’ ·followers [disciples], 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 [^Cspiritually] bury their own dead.”