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Luke 9:59
He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
Luke 9:59 · World English Bible
Luke 9:59 in other translations
And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
Then He said to another man, “Follow Me.” The man replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”
He said to another, "Follow me!" But he said, "Allow me first to go and bury my father."
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In context
56 For the Son of Man didn’t come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them.” They went to another village.
57 As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”
58 Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”
59 He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
60 But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”
61 Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those 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 God’s Kingdom.”
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