Matthew 8:21 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²¹ Then another one of His disciples said to Him, “Allow me to go and bury my father first.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ Another of the disciples said to Him, Lord, let me first go and bury [care for till death] my father.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And another of the disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

Common English Bible

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

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ Then another of his disciples said to him, "Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father."

Matthew 8:21 Cross References

Matthew 19:29

And every person who has left his house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children or property, for my name’s sake [i.e., to become a servant of the Lord], will receive [back] a hundred times as much [in this life] and will [also] inherit never ending life.

2 Corinthians 5:16

So, from now on we will not regard any person by worldly standards, even though we [once] regarded Christ that way. But we will not regard Him [that way] anymore. [Note: Paul seems to be saying that before his conversion he viewed Christ on the basis of His family, His education, His position, etc., but since his conversion he does not view Him that way anymore].

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.”

Matthew 8:22

But Jesus answered him, “Become my follower, and let the [spiritually] dead bury them” [i.e., let a person’s relatives care for their own family members until they die].