The Cost of Following Jesus (LUK 9:57-62)

[9:57] As they were going along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.”

[9:58] And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

[9:59] To another he said, “Follow me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”

[9:60] And Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God.”

[9:61] Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.”

[9:62] Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.”