Matthew 8:21
19 And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
22 But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
23 And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Another of His disciples requested, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
- KJV
- And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
- WEB
- Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
- ASV
- And another of the disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
- DARBY
- But another of his disciples said to him, Lord, suffer me first to go away and bury my father.
- BLB
- And another of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, allow me first to go away and to bury my father.”
- ÅB
- Men en annen, en av disiplene hans, sa til ham: «Herre! gi meg først lov til å gå bort og begrave min far!»
- OTB
- En annen disippel sa til Ham, “Herre, la meg først gå og begrave min far.”
- B1930
- Men en annen, en av hans disipler, sa til ham: Herre! gi mig først lov til å gå bort og begrave min far!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Luke 9:59–62
And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Read in contextMatthew 19:29
And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name’s sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
Read in contextLeviticus 21:11–12
Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother;
Read in contextNumbers 6:6–7
All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body.
Read in context1 Kings 19:20–21
And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
Read in contextHaggai 1:2
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD’s house should be built.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 33:9–10
Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.
Read in context2 Corinthians 5:16
Wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh: yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth know we him no more.
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