And a certain scribe came and said to him: Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou shalt go.
So likewise every one of you that doth not renounce all that he possesseth, cannot be my disciple.
Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?
This Esdras went up from Babylon, and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the Lord God had given to Israel. And the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the Lord his God upon him.
And with you perhaps I shall abide, or even spend the winter: that you may bring me on my way whithersoever I shall go.