Matthew 8:21

What It Takes To Be A Disciple

²⁰ and Jesus saith to him, 'The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may lay the head.' ²¹ And another of his disciples said to him, 'Sir, permit me first to depart and to bury my father;' ²² and Jesus said to him, 'Follow me, and suffer the dead to bury their own dead.'

My Father

Leviticus 21:11-12

nor beside any dead person doth he come; for his father and for his mother he doth not defile himself;

Numbers 6:6-7

'All days of his keeping separate to Jehovah, near a dead person he doth not go;

Deuteronomy 33:9-10

Who is saying of his father and his mother, I have not seen him; And his brethren he hath not discerned, And his sons he hath not known; For they have observed Thy saying, And Thy covenant they keep.

1 Kings 19:20-21

and he forsaketh the oxen, and runneth after Elijah, and saith, 'Let me give a kiss, I pray thee, to my father and to my mother, and I go after thee.' And he saith to him, 'Go, turn back, for what have I done to thee?'

Haggai 1:2

Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: This people! -- they have said, 'The time hath not come, The time the house of Jehovah is to be built.'

Matthew 19:29

and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;

Luke 9:59-62

And he said unto another, 'Be following me;' and he said, 'Sir, permit me, having gone away, first to bury my father;'

2 Corinthians 5:16

So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;