Matthew 8:21

What It Takes To Be A Disciple

²⁰ And Jesus saith unto him: The foxes, have, dens, and, the birds of the heavens, nests, - but, the Son of Man, hath not where, his head he may recline. ²¹ And, another of the disciples, saith unto him, - Lord! suffer me, first, to depart, and bury my father. ²² But, Jesus, saith unto him, - Be following me, and leave, the dead, to bury, their own dead.

My Father

Leviticus 21:11-12

And, unto no persons b of the dead, shall he go in, - For his father or for his mother, shall he not make himself unclean;

Numbers 6:6-7

All the days for which he hath separated himself unto Yahweh to no dead person, shall he go in.

Deuteronomy 33:9-10

Who saith of his father and of his mother, I behold them not, And, his own brethren, regardeth he not, And, his own sons, observeth he not, - Because they watch thy speech, That, thy covenant, they may preserve,;

1 Kings 19:20-21

and he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said - Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, that I may follow thee. And he said unto him, - Go, turn back, for what have I done to thee?

Haggai 1:2

Thus, speaketh Yahweh of hosts, saying, - This people, have said, Not yet hath come the time for the house of Yahweh to be built.

Matthew 19:29

And, whosoever left houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands, for sake of my name, manifold, shall receive, and life, age-abiding, shall inherit.

Luke 9:59-62

And he said unto another - Be following me! But, he, said - Suffer me, first, to depart, and bury my father.

2 Corinthians 5:16

So that, we, henceforth, know, no one, after the flesh: if we have even been gaining, after the flesh, a knowledge of Christ,