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Luke 9:61
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59 aThen He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”  
60 Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.”
61 And another also said, “Lord, aI will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.”  
62 But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is afit for the kingdom of God.” 
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Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Luke 9:61

INCIDENTS ILLUSTRATIVE OF DISCIPLESHIP. (Luke 9:57-62)

I will follow . . . but—The second disciple had a "but" too—a difficulty in the way just then. Yet the different treatment of the two cases shows how different was the spirit of the two, and to that our Lord addressed Himself. The case of Elisha (I Kings 19:19-21), though apparently similar to this, will be found quite different from the "looking back" of this case, the best illustration of which is that of those Hindu converts of our day who, when once persuaded to leave their spiritual fathers in order to "bid them farewell which are at home at their house," very rarely return to them. (Also see on Matthew 8:21.)




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