Luke 9:52-62 ▼

52 and He sent messengers before His face, and having gone on, they went into a village of Samaritans, to make ready for Him,

53 and they did not receive Him, because His face was going on to Jerusalem.

54 And His disciples James and John having seen, said, “Lord, will You [that] we may command fire to come down from Heaven, and to consume them, as Elijah also did?”

55 And having turned, He rebuked them and said, “You have not known of what spirit you are,

56 for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save”; and they went on to another village.

57 And it came to pass, as they are going on in the way, a certain one said to Him, “I will follow You wherever You may go, Lord”;

58 and Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky places of rest, but the Son of Man has nowhere He may recline the head.”

59 And He said to another, “Follow Me”; and he said, “Lord, permit me, having gone away, to first bury my father”;

60 and Jesus said to him, “Permit the dead to bury their own dead, and you, having gone away, publish the Kingdom of God.”

61 And another also said, “I will follow You, Lord, but first permit me to take leave of those in my house”;

62 and Jesus said to him, “No one having put his hand on a plow, and looking back, is fit for the Kingdom of God.”