Luke 9:57-62 (Gospel)
- 57
- Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, “Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.”
- 58
- And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”
- 59
- Then He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”
- 60
- Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.”
- 61
- And another also said, “Lord, I will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.”
- 62
- But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.”