{"id":2800,"date":"2014-01-01T05:15:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T11:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2800"},"modified":"2025-06-18T08:03:33","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:03:33","slug":"matthew-818-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2800","title":{"rendered":"Matthew 8:18-22"},"content":{"rendered":"

18\u00a0And when Jesus saw great multitudes about Him, He gave a command to depart to the other side.\u00a0<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

19\u00a0Then a certain scribe came and said to Him, \u201cTeacher, I will follow You wherever You go.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

20\u00a0And Jesus said to him,\u00a0\u201cFoxes have holes and birds of the air\u00a0have\u00a0nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay\u00a0His\u00a0head.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

21\u00a0Then another of His disciples said to Him, \u201cLord, let me first go and bury my father.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

22\u00a0But Jesus said to him,\u00a0\u201cFollow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

Master (v.19) = Teacher<\/h3>\n

Son of Man (v.20) \u2014 how the Lord most frequently referred to Himself \u2014 from Daniel 7:13 \u2014 used to emphasize that He was the Messiah, often in connection with His rejection<\/h3>\n

bury my father (v.21) \u2014 probably means “wait until my father dies”<\/h3>\n

Let the dead bury their own dead (v.22) \u2014 means “let the spiritually dead bury the physically dead”<\/h3>\n

The two men mentioned here, the scribe and the disciple, seem to be used as examples of how many responded to Christ. There were those who were caught up in the enthusiasm of the moment who had no idea of the cost demanded. And there were those who were impressed but unwilling to fully commit.<\/h3>\n

The occasion also appears in Luke 9:57-62, with the addition of a third disciple who asked leave to say goodbye to his family. The Lord responded by telling him he couldn’t have divided priorities.<\/h3>\n

All of this must be understood, in a physical sense, in light of the immediacy of the kingdom. In this age, spiritually, our devotion must be to Christ, but we are also told to care for those who depend on us.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

18\u00a0And when Jesus saw great multitudes about Him, He gave a command to depart to the other side.\u00a0 19\u00a0Then a certain scribe came and said to Him, \u201cTeacher, I will follow You wherever You go.\u201d 20\u00a0And Jesus said to him,\u00a0\u201cFoxes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-matthew"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2800"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9229,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2800\/revisions\/9229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}