Challenging Professed Followers

8:18 Now when Jesus saw a large crowd32 around him, he gave orders to go to the other side of the lake.33 8:19 Then34 an expert in the law35 came to him and said, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”36 8:20 Jesus said to him, “Foxes have dens, and the birds in the sky37 have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”38 8:21 Another39 of the40 disciples said to him, “Lord, let me first go and bury my father.” 8:22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”41