The Cost of Following Jesus
57 As they were walking along the road, a man said to him, “I will follow
you wherever you go.”
58 Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of
Man has no place to lay his head.”
59 He said to another man, “Follow me.” But he replied, “Lord, first let
me go and bury my father.”
60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and
proclaim the kingdom of God.”
61 Still another said, “I will follow you, Lord; but first let me go back and
say goodbye to my family.”
62 Jesus replied, “No one who puts a hand to the plow and looks back
is fit for service in the kingdom of God.”