The Cost of Discipleship

Jesus orders the crossing after seeing the crowd, and a scribe offers to follow wherever he goes. Jesus answers with the lack of a settled home, then tells another disciple to follow at once instead of delaying for burial duties.

W¹⁸hen Jesus saw a large crowd around Him, He gave orders to cross to the other side of the sea. ¹⁹And one of the scribes came to Him and said, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.” ²⁰Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay His head.” ²¹Another of His disciples requested, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” ²²But Jesus told him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”