Luke 9:49-59

49 John spoke up, "Master, we saw a man driving out demons in your name, and we told him to stop, because he doesn't belong to our group."
50 "Do not try to stop him," Jesus said to him and to the other disciples, "because whoever is not against you is for you."
51 As the time drew near when Jesus would be taken up to heaven, he made up his mind and set out on his way to Jerusalem.
52 He sent messengers ahead of him, who went into a village in Samaria to get everything ready for him.
53 But the people there would not receive him, because it was clear that he was on his way to Jerusalem.
54 When the disciples James and John saw this, they said, "Lord, do you want us to call fire down from heaven to destroy them?" 1
55 Jesus turned and rebuked them.
56 Then Jesus and his disciples went on to another village.
57 As they went on their way, a man said to Jesus, "I will follow you wherever you go."
58 Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lie down and rest."
59 He said to another man, "Follow me." But that man said, "Sir, first let me go back and bury my father."

Cross References 1

  • 1. 9.54 2 Kings 1.9-16.

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. [Some manuscripts add] as Elijah did.
  • [b]. [Some manuscripts add] and said, "You don't know what kind of a Spirit you belong to; for the Son of Man did not come to destroy human lives, but to save them."
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.