59And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.
And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.
And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. …
Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the LORD'S house should be built.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 57-62)We have here an account of three several persons that offered themselves to follow Christ, and the answers that Christ gave to each of them. The two former we had an account of in Matt. 19:21. I. Here is one that is extremely forward to follow Christ immediately, but seems to have been too rash, hasty, and inconsiderate, and not to have set down and counted the cost. 1. He makes Christ a very larg…
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