Opportunities to Obey

⁵⁷ As Jesus and his disciples traveled along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” ⁵⁸ Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and the birds in the sky have nests, but the Human Onehas no place to lay his head.” ⁵⁹ Then Jesus said to someone else, “Follow me.” He replied, “Lord, first let me go and bury my father.” ⁶⁰ Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead. But you go and spread the news of God’s kingdom.” ⁶¹ Someone else said to Jesus, “I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say good-bye to those in my house.” ⁶² Jesus said to him, “No one who puts a hand on the plow and looks back is fit for God’s kingdom.”