Luke 9:58 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁵⁸ Jesus replied to him, “The foxes have dens [in which to live] and the birds of the sky have nests [in which to roost], but the Son of man does not have anywhere to lay His head.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵⁸ And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵⁸ And Jesus told him, Foxes have lurking holes and the birds of the air have roosts and nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵⁸ And Jesus said unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Common English Bible

⁵⁸ Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Human Onehas no place to lay his head.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵⁸ Jesus said to him: "Foxes have dens, and the birds of the air have nests. But the Son of man has nowhere to lay his head."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵⁸ Jesus said to him: The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

Luke 9:58 Cross References

Matthew 13:32

This seed is indeed [one of] the smallest of all seeds, but when it is [fully] grown, it is larger than [other] plants, and [even] becomes a tree, so that the birds of the sky come and roost on its branches.”

Matthew 8:20

Jesus replied to him, “The foxes have dens [in which to live] and the birds of the sky have nests [in which to roost]; but the Son of man does not have anywhere to lay His head.”

2 Corinthians 8:9

For you know the unearned favor of our Lord Jesus Christ, [how] that even though He was rich, He became poor for your sakes, so that through His poverty you people could become [spiritually] rich.

James 2:5

Listen, my dearly loved brothers; did not God choose those who are poor in the eyes of the world to be wealthy in faith and to inherit the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him?