Scripture Readings

Saturday, November 19, 2016

Luke 9:57-62 (Gospel)

57
Now it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, “Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.”
58
And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay His head.”
59
Then 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, I 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 fit for the kingdom of God.”