Matthew 8:22Douay-Rheims
But Jesus said to him: Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead.
Related Verses
Genesis 23:4
I am a stranger and sojourner among you: give me the right of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead.
Genesis 23:6
My Lord, hear us, thou art a prince of God among us: bury thy dead in our principle sepulchers: and no man shall have power to hinder thee from burying thy dead in his sepulcher.
Genesis 23:8
And said to them: If it please your soul that I should bury my dead, hear me, and intercede for me to Ephron the son of Seor.
Genesis 23:9
That he may give me the double cave, which he hath in the end of his field: for as much money as it is worth he shall give it me before you, for a possession of a buryingplace.
Genesis 23:11
Let it not be so, my lord, but do thou rather hearken to what I say: The field I deliver to thee, and the cave that is therein, in the presence of the children of my people, bury thy dead.