Would-be Followers

18 Now when[a] Jesus saw many crowds[b] around him, he gave orders to depart to the other side.[c] 19 And a scribe approached and[d] said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go!” 20 And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have dens and birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 8:18 Here “when” is supplied as a component of the participle (“saw”) which is understood as temporal
  2. Matthew 8:18 Some manuscripts have “a crowd”
  3. Matthew 8:18 That is, the other side of the Sea of Galilee
  4. Matthew 8:19 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“approached”) has been translated as a finite verb