⁵²and he sent messengers before his face, and having gone on, they went into a village of Samaritans, to make ready for him, ⁵³and they did not receive him, because his face was going on to Jerusalem. ⁵⁴And his disciples James and John having seen, said, ‘Sir, wilt thou that we may command fire to come down from the heaven, and to consume them, as also Elijah did?’ ⁵⁵and having turned, he rebuked them, and said, ‘Ye have not known of what spirit ye are; ⁵⁶for the Son of Man did not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save;’ and they went on to another village.

⁵⁷And it came to pass, as they are going on in the way, a certain one said unto him, ‘I will follow thee wherever thou mayest go, sir;’ ⁵⁸and Jesus said to him, ‘The foxes have holes, and the fowls of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may recline the head.’ ⁵⁹And he said unto another, ‘Be following me;’ and he said, ‘Sir, permit me, having gone away, first to bury my father;’ ⁶⁰and Jesus said to him, ‘Suffer the dead to bury their own dead, and thou, having gone away, publish the reign of God.’ ⁶¹And another also said, ‘I will follow thee, sir, but first permit me to take leave of those in my house;’ ⁶²and Jesus said unto him, ‘No one having put his hand on a plough, and looking back, is fit for the reign of God.’

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