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Matthew 8:19-21
Living Bible
Matthew 8:19-21
Living Bible
19 Just then[a] one of the Jewish religious teachers said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you no matter where you go!”
20 But Jesus said, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but I, the Messiah,[b] have no home of my own—no place to lay my head.”
21 Another of his disciples said, “Sir, when my father is dead, then I will follow you.”[c]
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- Matthew 8:19 Just then, implied. one of the Jewish religious teachers, literally, “a scribe.”
- Matthew 8:20 the Messiah, literally, “the Son of Man.”
- Matthew 8:21 when my father is dead, then I will follow you, or “let me first go and bury my father.”
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