Verse 21

And another of his disciples said to him, `Sir, permit me first to depart and to bury my father;'

Referenced Verses

  • Luke 9:59-62 : 59 And he said unto another, `Be following me;' and he said, `Sir, permit me, having gone away, first to bury my father;' 60 and Jesus said to him, `Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, and thou, having gone away, publish the reign of God.' 61 And another also said, `I will follow thee, sir, but first permit me to take leave of those in my house;' 62 and Jesus said unto him, `No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.'
  • Hag 1:2 : 2 Thus spake Jehovah of Hosts, saying: This people! -- they have said, `The time hath not come, The time the house of Jehovah `is' to be built.'
  • Lev 21:11-12 : 11 nor beside any dead person doth he come; for his father and for his mother he doth not defile himself; 12 nor from the sanctuary doth he go out, nor doth he pollute the sanctuary of his God, for the separation of the anointing oil of his God `is' on him; I `am' Jehovah.
  • Num 6:6-7 : 6 `All days of his keeping separate to Jehovah, near a dead person he doth not go; 7 for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister -- he is not unclean for them at their death, for the separation of his God `is' on his head;
  • Deut 33:9-9 : 9 Who is saying of his father and his mother, I have not seen him; And his brethren he hath not discerned, And his sons he hath not known; For they have observed Thy saying, And Thy covenant they keep. 10 They teach Thy judgments to Jacob, And Thy law to Israel; They put perfume in Thy nose, And whole burnt-offering on Thine altar.
  • 1 Kgs 19:20-21 : 20 and he forsaketh the oxen, and runneth after Elijah, and saith, `Let me give a kiss, I pray thee, to my father and to my mother, and I go after thee.' And he saith to him, `Go, turn back, for what have I done to thee?' 21 And he turneth back from after him, and taketh the yoke of oxen, and sacrificeth it, and with instruments of the oxen he hath boiled their flesh, and giveth to the people, and they eat, and he riseth, and goeth after Elijah, and serveth him.
  • Matt 19:29 : 29 and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;
  • 2 Cor 5:16 : 16 So that we henceforth have known no one according to the flesh, and even if we have known Christ according to the flesh, yet now we know him no more;