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19 Just then, a scribe came up and told him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

20 Jesus told him,

“Foxes have holes and birds[a] have nests,
    but the Son of Man has no place to rest.”[b]

21 Then another of his disciples told him, “Lord,[c] first let me go and bury my father.”

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

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 8:20 Lit. birds in the sky
  2. Matthew 8:20 Lit. no place to lay his head
  3. Matthew 8:21 Or Sir