A moment in scripture
Matthew 8:21
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And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
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The surrounding passage
- Matthew 8:19
And a certain scribe came, and said unto him, Master, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.
- Matthew 8:20
And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
- Matthew 8:22
But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.
- Matthew 8:23
And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.