Matthew 8:21
Another of the disciples said to him, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father."
Leviticus 21:11-12
He must not go where there is any dead person; he must not defile himself even for his father and his mother.
Numbers 6:6-7
"'All the days that he separates himself to the Lord he must not contact a dead body.
Deuteronomy 33:9-10
He said to his father and mother, "I have not seen him," and he did not acknowledge his own brothers or know his own children, for they kept your word, and guarded your covenant.
1 Kings 19:20-21
He left the oxen, ran after Elijah, and said, "Please let me kiss my father and mother goodbye, then I will follow you." Elijah said to him, "Go back! Indeed, what have I done to you?"
Haggai 1:2
The Lord who rules over all says this: "These people have said, 'The time for rebuilding the Lord's temple has not yet come.'"
Matthew 19:29
And whoever has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for my sake will receive a hundred times as much and will inherit eternal life.
Luke 9:59-62
Jesus said to another, "Follow me." But he replied, "Lord, first let me go and bury my father."
2 Corinthians 5:16
So then from now on we acknowledge no one from an outward human point of view. Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view, now we do not know him in that way any longer.