Matthew 8:21

Another of the disciples said to Him, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”

Leviticus 21:11-12

nor shall he approach any dead person, nor defile himself even for his father or his mother;

Numbers 6:6-7

‘All the days of his separation to the Lord he shall not go near to a dead person.

Deuteronomy 33:9-10

Who said of his father and his mother,
‘I did not consider them’;
And he did not acknowledge his brothers,
Nor did he regard his own sons,
For they observed Your word,
And kept Your covenant.

1 Kings 19:20-21

He left the oxen and ran after Elijah and said, “Please let me kiss my father and my mother, then I will follow you.” And he said to him, “Go back again, for what have I done to you?”

Haggai 1:2

“Thus says the Lord of hosts, ‘This people says, “The time has not come, even the time for the house of the Lord to be rebuilt.”’”

Matthew 19:29

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or farms for My name’s sake, will receive many times as much, and will inherit eternal life.

Luke 9:59-62

And He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”

2 Corinthians 5:16

Therefore from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh; even though we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know Him in this way no longer.

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Matthew 8:21

And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

Another

Luke 9:59

General references

Ezekiel 44:25

Bible References

Another

And He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”

General references

They shall not go to a dead person to defile themselves; however, for father, for mother, for son, for daughter, for brother, or for a sister who has not had a husband, they may defile themselves.