21And another of his disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.
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And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father. …
All the days that he separateth himself unto the LORD he shall come at no dead body. …
Neither shall he go in to any dead body, nor defile himself for his father, or for his mother; …
And every one that hath forsaken houses, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my name's sake, shall receive an hundredfold, and shall inherit everlasting life.
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? …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-22)Here is, I. Christ’s removing to the other side of the sea of Tiberias , and his ordering his disciples, whose boats attended him, to get their transport-vessels ready, in order to it, Matt. 8:18. The influences of this Sun of righteousness were not to be confined to one place, but diffused all the country over; he must go about to do good; the necessities of souls called to him, Come over, and he…
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