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Matthew 8:22

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But Jesus said unto him, Follow me; and let the dead bury their dead.

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  1. 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.

  2. Matthew 8:21

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

  3. Matthew 8:23

    And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.

  4. Matthew 8:24

    And, behold, there arose a great tempest in the sea, insomuch that the ship was covered with the waves: but he was asleep.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.