Matthew 8:21

New Century Version

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

Cross References

Haggai 1:2

“This is what the Lord All-Powerful says: ‘The people say the right time has not come to rebuild the Temple of the Lord.’ ”

Matthew 19:29

And all those who have left houses, brothers, sisters, father, mother, children, or farms to follow me will get much more than they left, and they will have life forever.

Matthew 8:20

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.”

Matthew 8:22

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

2 Corinthians 5:16

From this time on we do not think of anyone as the world does. In the past we thought of Christ as the world thinks, but we no longer think of him in that way.