Luke 9:52–62

⁵²and sent messengers before His face. And as they went, they entered a village of the Samaritans, to prepare for Him. ⁵³But ^uthey did not receive Him, because His face was set for the journey to Jerusalem. ⁵⁴And when His disciples ^vJames and John saw this, they said, “Lord, do You want us to command fire to come down from heaven and consume them, ¹just as ^wElijah did?”

⁵⁵But He turned and rebuked them, ²and said, “You do not know what manner of ^xspirit you are of. ⁵⁶³For ^ythe Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives but to save them.” And they went to another village.

True Cost of Discipleship

Matt. 8:18–22

^57zNow it happened as they journeyed on the road, that someone said to Him, “Lord, I will follow You wherever You go.”

⁵⁸And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man ^ahas nowhere to lay His head.”

^59bThen He said to another, “Follow Me.”

But he said, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.”

⁶⁰Jesus said to him, “Let the dead bury their own dead, but you go and preach the kingdom of God.”

⁶¹And another also said, “Lord, ^cI will follow You, but let me first go and bid them farewell who are at my house.”

⁶²But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is ^dfit for the kingdom of God.”