Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version

Matthew 8:18-22 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

18. When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he told his followers to go to the other side of the lake.

19. Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you any place you go.”

20. Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes to live in. The birds have nests. But the Son of Man has no place to rest.”

21. Another of Jesus’ followers said to him, “Lord, I will follow you too, but let me go and bury my father first.”

22. But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and let those who are dead bury their own dead.”