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60 Jesus replied, “Let those without eternal life concern themselves with things like that.[a] Your duty is to come and preach the coming of the Kingdom of God to all the world.”

61 Another said, “Yes, Lord, I will come, but first let me ask permission of those at home.”[b]

62 But Jesus told him, “Anyone who lets himself be distracted from the work I plan for him is not fit for the Kingdom of God.”

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 9:60 Let those without eternal life concern themselves with things like that, or “Let those who are spiritually dead care for their own dead.”
  2. Luke 9:61 ask permission of those at home, literally, “bid them farewell at home.”

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