Luke 9:57

Would-be Followers

57 And [as] they were traveling on the road, someone said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go!"

Luke 9:57 Meaning and Commentary

Luke 9:57

And it came to pass, as they went in the way
From one village of the Samaritans, to the other; though if this is the same history related in ( Matthew 8:19 ) it was as Christ went from Capernaum to the sea side, in order to go to the other side of it; and must be inserted here, without regard to the order of time:

a certain man said unto him;
if the same as in Matthew, he is there said to be a "Scribe";

Lord, I will follow thee, wheresoever thou goest.
The Arabic and Ethiopic versions read these words by way of question, "Lord, shall I not follow thee wheresoever thou goest?" (See Gill on Matthew 8:19).

Luke 9:57 In-Context

55 But he turned around [and] rebuked them,

56 and they proceeded to another village.

57 And [as] they were traveling on the road, someone said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go!"

58 And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have dens and birds of the sky [have] nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay [his] head."

59 And he said to another, "Follow me!" But he said, "Lord, first allow me to go [and] bury my father."

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[as]" is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle ("were going")