Matthew 8:18-22

New International Reader's Version

The Cost of Following Jesus

¹⁸ Jesus saw the crowd around him. So he gave his disciples orders to go to the other side of the Sea of Galilee. ¹⁹ Then a teacher of the law came to him. He said, “Teacher, I will follow you no matter where you go.”

²⁰ Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens. Birds have nests. But the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

²¹ Another follower said to him, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.”

²² But Jesus told him, “Follow me. Let the dead bury their own dead.”