60 But he said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead! But you go and[a] proclaim the kingdom of God.” 61 And another person also said, “I will follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say farewell to those in my house.” 62 But Jesus said,[b] “No one who puts his[c] hand on the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God!”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 9:60 Here “and” is supplied because the previous participle (“go”) has been translated as a finite verb
  2. Luke 9:62 Some manuscripts have “said to him”
  3. Luke 9:62 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun