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Matthew 8:19

A scribe came and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

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Matthew 8:19 in other translations

KJV King James Version

And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.

BSB Berean Standard Bible

And one of the scribes came to Him and said, “Teacher, I will follow You wherever You go.”

NHEB New Heart English Bible

Then a scribe came, and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go."

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In context

16 When evening came, they brought to him many possessed with demons. He cast out the spirits with a word, and healed all who were sick,

17 that it might be fulfilled which was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying, “He took our infirmities and bore our diseases.”

18 Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.

19 A scribe came and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

20 Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

21 Another of his disciples said to him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and leave the dead to bury their own dead.”

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