Luke 9:51-61

⁵¹When it was almost time for God to take Jesus up to heaven, he firmly resolved to go to Jerusalem.

⁵²He sent some messengers to go ahead of him, and they entered a village in Samaria district to prepare for him SYN to go there.

⁵³But the Samaritans did not like the Jews because of their insisting that it was necessary to go to Jerusalem to worship God. So, because Jesus had firmly resolved to go to Jerusalem, they would not let him come to their village.

⁵⁴When two of his disciples, James and John, heard about that, they said, “Lord, do you (sg) want us (exc) to pray that God will send fire down from heaven, as the prophet Elijah did long ago, and destroy those people?”

⁵⁵But Jesus turned and rebuked them for saying that.

⁵⁶So they went to a different village.

⁵⁷As Jesus and the disciples were walking along the road, one man said to him, “I will go with you (sg) wherever you go!”

⁵⁸In order that the man might know what he could expect if he went with Jesus, Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes in the ground in which to live, and birds have nests, but even though I am the one who came from heaven, I do not have a home where I can sleep!”

⁵⁹Jesus told another man, “Come with me!” But the man said, “Lord/Sir, let me go home first. After my father dies I will bury him, and then I will come with you.”

⁶⁰But Jesus said to him, “ God considers that those who do not have eternal life are dead MET. Let those people do the work of burying people who die. As for you, go and tell people about how God wants ◄to rule/to have complete control over► people's lives!”

⁶¹Someone else said, “Lord, I will come with you and be your disciple, but first let me go home to say goodbye to my relatives.”